In a significant diplomatic movement, Iran and the United States resumed nuclear negotiations in Muscat, Oman, the first direct conversations since Donald Trump returned to the White House. | Photo credit: Sjhashi Ashiwal
Iran and the United States will celebrate more negotiations next week about the nuclear program that advanced rapidly from Tehran, Iranian state television reported on Saturday at the end of the first round of conversations between the two countries from Trump.
Iran’s state broadcaster revealed that the envoy of the Middle East of the United States Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, “spoke letters”, the first time the two nations did it from the Obama administration.
Tehran’s statement that the two parts spoke to the face, even if the letters are of the negotiations, well to Iranian state television, which for a long time has been controlled by annoyance.
In a statement published on Saturday afternoon, the White House described the discussions as “very positive and constructive”, while the concentration of the problems that must be solved “are very complicated.” “Direct Witkoff Special Communication today was a step forward to achieve a mutually beneficial result,” said the White House.
The next round of conversations will take place on Saturday, April 19, according to Iranian and American statements.
This first round of conversations begged around 3:30 pm local time. The two parts spoke for approximately two hours on a place on the outskirts of Muscat, the capital of Oman, finishing the conversations around 5:50 pm local time. The convoy that is believed to take Witkoff returned to Muscat before disappearing in traffic around a neighborhood that houses the United States embassy.
Negotiation bets could not be higher for the two nations that are approaching in half a century of enmity. Trump has repeatedly threatened to release air attacks aimed at Iran’s nuclear 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.
The conversations took place on Saturday afternoon in Oman Associated Press, journalists saw a convoy that is believed to be carried out Witkoff Leave Defing the Omar Foreign Ministry on Saturday afternoon and then accelerates on the outskirts of Muscat. The convoy entered a complex and a few minutes later, the spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Iran, Esmail Baghaei, wrote to the social platform X that the “indirect conversations began.”
Subsequently, Araghchi described the meeting as a constructive for Iranian state television, with four rounds of messages exchanged the duration of the indirect part.
“Neither we nor the other side are interested in unsuccessful negotiations so called for the good of conversations,” wasting time, or prolonged and exhausting negotiations, “he said.” Both parties, including Americans, have said that their objective is also to reach an agreement in the shortest possible time. However, that will not be an easy task. “That the two men spoke to the face satisfied a demand of the Americans. Trump and Witkoff had described that the conversations were” direct. “” I think our position begins with the dismantling of your program. That is our position today, “Witkoff told the Wall Street Journal before his trip.” That does not mean, by the way, that in the margin we will not find other ways to find commitment between the two countries. “He added:” Where our red line will be, there can be no weapons of its nuclear capacity. “Drawing the anger of hard funds in Iran.
Badr Al-Busidi, Oman’s Foreign Minister who moved between the two parties, said countries have a “shared objective to conclude a fair and binding agreement.” “I would like to thank my two colleagues for this commitment, which took place in a friendly atmosphere conducive to joining points of view and, ultimately, achieving regional and global security and stability,” Al-Busidi wrote in X. “We will continue working together and put more efforts to help reach this relief of sanctions and sanctions and enrichment that remains the suspect for the United States continue with the relief of sanctions, the relief of the United States, it is still the relief of sanctions, it is still the relief of the United States, it is still the relief of the United States. Some enriched material up to 60 percent, to a brief and technical step of the levels of gun. Judging by negotiations since Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the agreement in 2018, Iran will probably request to continue enriching up to at least 20 percent.
One thing that will not do is give up your program completely. That makes the proposal of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, of a so -called Libya solution: “enter, you explode the facilities, dismantle all teams, under US supervision, US execution,” does not work.
The Iranians, including Ayatolá Ali Khameei, have a hero, which finally went to the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, who was killed with his own weapon by the rebels in the warning of the 2011 Arab chicken of the country.
Posted on April 13, 2025