Sri Lanka, Sept. 25 -- Tehran and Washington signalled a possible softening in nuclear tensions on Wednesday (Sep 24), with Iran insisting it has no ambitions to build nuclear weapons and the US expressing readiness to resume talks aimed at resolving the long-standing standoff.

A few hours after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN General Assembly that Iran will never seek to build a nuclear bomb, US President Donald Trump's Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff said "we have no desire to hurt them".

"We're talking to them. And why wouldn't we? We talk to everybody. As well we should. That's the job. Our job is to solve things," he told the Concordia summit in New York.

Prior to a 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June, Tehra...