NEW YORK (VINnews) — Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of President Donald Trump who was involved in the talks with the Ayatollah regime, revealed overnight Tuesday in an interview with Fox News the behind-the-scenes details of three days of negotiations with Tehran, and disclosed that the U.S. proposed a ten-year zero-enrichment framework to Iran, which was flatly rejected.

“Three different times we opened the talks with the Iranians saying they have an ‘inalienable right’ to enrich all the nuclear fuel in their possession. That’s how they opened,” he said. According to him, the American response was sharp: “The President feels we have an inalienable right to stop you immediately.” However, the Iranians made it clear that enrichment was not just a demand — it was their starting point. “Jared Kushner (the President’s envoy and son-in-law) and I looked at each other, confused, and said: well, now we’re really in this,” he described.

Witkoff revealed that Washington proposed a dramatic framework: “We discussed ten years of absolute zero enrichment. We would pay for the fuel.” The proposal, he said, “was rejected outright.” At that point, he realized that “they had no intention of doing anything except preserving enrichment for weaponization purposes.”

According to him, the turning point was not a single statement but the data that was ultimately put on the table. “They have approximately 10,000 kilograms of fissile material,” he detailed. Of that amount, “about 460 kilograms enriched to 60%, another roughly 1,000 kilograms to 20%, and the remainder at 3.67%.” He explained that the 60% material could be brought to weapons-grade “within about a week, maybe ten days at most,” and the 20% material “within three to four weeks.”

It was clear that an agreement was no longer possible even before the third round of talks. Kushner, Witkoff, and the Omani mediator.

The Iranians boasted about concealing the enriched material.

What particularly astonished him, he said, was how the Iranians presented the matter. “The two Iranian negotiators told us directly, without shame, that they control 460 kilograms of 60% enrichment, and they are aware that this could produce 11 nuclear bombs. That was their opening position.” He added: “They were proud that they had evaded various monitoring protocols.”

According to him, “probably by the end of the second meeting” it was clear that reaching an agreement “would be impossible,” but the delegation returned for a third meeting “to give it one last try.” Even then, he emphasized, “it was not positive.”

Witkoff claimed that Tehran believed it could “apply pressure on us.” However, he said Trump sent him and his partners to determine whether Iran was willing to reach a deal that would meet his four main objectives: eliminating the missile program, ending support for proxy terror groups, dismantling naval capabilities that threaten freedom of navigation, and “zero nuclear enrichment that could reach weapons grade — meaning, no nuclear bomb.”

“In the end,” he said, “we tried to make a fair deal with them. It was very clear that this was going to be impossible.”