Iran and the in -depth negotiations of the United States hero in Oman The nuclear program that Tehran advances quickly On Saturday, the conversations that probably depend on the enrichment of Uranium of the Islamic Republic.
The conversations lasted several hours in Muscat, the capital wrapped in the mountain of this sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian peninsula.
A person close to Steve Witkoff, the special envoy of the United States to the Middle East, acknowledged that the meeting had begun and then ended. The source spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss closed conversations. Iranian state television also reported its conclusion.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi or Witkoff He told state television after the conversations that the parties exchanged points written through the day in the discussions that he described as “very serious and focused on work.”
“This time, the negotiations were much more serious than in the past, and we gradually enter into deeper and detailed discussions,” he said. “We have moved a bit of broader general discussions, although it is not the case that all disagreements have been resolved. There are still differences in important problems and in details.”
A senior US administration official said the conversations were “positive and productive.”
“This last round of direct and indirect discussions in four hours,” said the official based on anonymity to discuss conversations. “There is still much to do, but greater progress was achieved in reaching an agreement. We accept to meet again in Europe, and we thank our Ouri members for facilitating thesis conversations.”
Omaní Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi, who has mediated the two previous round of conversations in Muscat and Rome, offered a positive note at the end of Saturday’s negotiations.
Iran and the United States “identified a shared aspiration to achieve based on mutual respect and lasting commitments,” Al-Busaidi published in X. “The central principles, objectives and technical conerns were addressed.
Araghchi arrived on Friday in Oman on the eve of the conversations and visited the International Book Fair of Muscat, surrounded by television cameras and photojournalists. Witkoff was in Moscow on Friday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and arrived on Saturday.
Meanwhile, on Saturday, a great explosion Shook a port in southern Iran Just after the conversations, kill four people and hurting more than 500 others. The authorities did not sacrifice any immediate cause of the explosion, which seemed to have a leg caused by a highly fuel material, although the officials ruled out their oil and gas industry. The private security firm was also linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellants to the port.
The conversations seek to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the elevation of some of the overwhelming economic sanctions that the United States has imposed on the Islamic Republic that is close to half a century of enmity.
The president of the United States, Trump, has repeatedly threatened to release air attacks aimed at the Iran program if an agreement is not reached. Iranian officials warn more and more that they could pursue a nuclear weapon with their enriched uranium arsenal to close levels of degree of weapons.
Iran’s nuclear agreement in 2015 with world powers limited Tehran’s program. However, Trump retired unilaterally in 2018, moving years of attacks and tensions. The widest Middle East also remains nervous about The Israel-Hamas War in the Gaza Strip.
Mr. Trump, traveling to Rome for The funeral of Pope FrancisAgain he said that the expected negotiations would lead to a new nuclear agreement. However, the hero remains the possibility of a military strike if they did not.
“Iran’s situation is going very well,” Trump said on Air Force One. “We have had many conversations with them and I think we are going to have a deal. I prefer to have a deal than the other alternative. That would be good for humanity.”
He added: “There are some people who because making a child different from a deal, a much more unpleasant treatment, and I do not want it to happen to Iran if we can avoid it.”
While Araghchi and Witkoff are expected to speak again through Theis, experts on both sides will also begin negotiating details of a possible agreement.
From the Iranian side, Iranian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Majid Takht-E Ravanchi, will direct Tehran’s team of experts, said Mohammad Golzari, an Iranian government official. Takht-e Ravanchi Tok starts in the 2015 nuclear conversations.
The United States Technical Team, which is expected to arrive in Oman on Friday, will be led by Michael Anton, the director of the Secretary of State of the United States, the Planning staff of Marco Rubio. Anton does not have the experience of nuclear policy of those who led the United States efforts in the 2015 conversations.
Iran has insisted that maintaining its enrichment is key. But Witkoff has buried the issue for the first suggestion in a television interview that Iran could enrich Uranium at 3.67%, and then say that every enrichment must stop. The demand that the entire enrichment stop has also been repeated by the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
However, the Iranians continue with the hope that conversations can be successful, since the Iranian rial has recovered from the minimum historical shift that exceeded 1 million rials to buy $ 1.
“It is well to negotiate, make the nuclear program smaller or larger, and reach an agreement,” said Tehran resident, Farzin Keivan. “Or of course, we should go to everything. After all, we have suffered a lot for this program.”
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