Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff are leading a fifth round of nuclear talks which kicked off Friday in Rome, through Omani mediators.

FM Araghchi said on X just ahead of the talks starting that it is "time to decide" - in post late Thursday. "Zero nuclear weapons = we DO have a deal. Zero enrichment = we do NOT have a deal," the Iranian top diplomat stated.

The US administration has of late been pushing a demand of no enrichment, but Tehran has rebuked this as a non-starter, saying it sees the issue as a right of national sovereignty. Araghchi had also written, "Figuring out the path to a deal is not rocket science."