BlockBeats News, June 13th, according to CNN, a senior U.S. government official said on Friday that Iran has "committed to never seeking or developing nuclear weapons," calling it a "major concession" by Tehran.

Iran has previously made similar public commitments. "We are pleased with their commitment not to manufacture nuclear weapons, but we must verify this, which is why the agreement was structured this way—to ensure the establishment of verification and inspection mechanisms and to ensure that they do not receive the benefits of negotiations until we see that they have indeed taken positive steps to dismantle their nuclear program," the senior official said.

Prior negotiations had discussed time frames of 10 or 20 years, requiring Iran to commit to not developing nuclear weapons, but Trump had indicated that this was not enough for him. The senior official stated that the U.S. is willing to allow Iran to use nuclear energy for civilian purposes. "We have no objection to Iran building civilian nuclear power plants. What we oppose is the kind of infrastructure that would allow them to leap from civilian power generation to nuclear weapons development, and this is something they have had for a long time."