After the technical conversations, the upper negotiators hoped to meet on April 26, according to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Iran and the United States have completed a second round of indirect nuclear negotiations, which Iran’s Foreign Minister has described as “constructive” and in the future with more planned meetings next week.
Abbas Araghchi and the United States Envoy Steve Witkoff celebrated four hours of indirect conversations at the Oman Embassy in the Italian capital, Rome, on Saturday, according to Araghchi.
“We managed to achieve a better understanding of certain principles and objectives,” said the diplomat quoted by Tasnim’s semi -official news agency. “The negotiations were carried out in a constructive atmosphere and are progressing.”
There has been no reading of the American side meeting.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the parties will have more indirect conversations at the technical level in the next few days, followed by another meeting with senior officials on April 26.
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“I hope that after next week’s technical sessions, we are in a better position,” Araghchi said, according to Tasnim. “There is no reason for optimism or excessive pessimism.”
‘Negotiations to collect’
James Bays from Al Jazeera, who reports near the Omaní diplomatic complex in Rome, said the Iranian response was “very positive” for a delegation that “seemed quite negative when speaking.”
The planned conversations of next week mean “the rhythm of the negotiations is going to collect,” Bays said.
The last meeting occurs a week after Iran and the United States joined in Muscat for their first high -level discussions since Trump in 2018 unilaterally abandoned a historical nuclear agreement signed and negotiated by World Powers in 2015.
Iranians “look for a kind of consistency when it comes to current conversations,” Tohid Asadi de Al Jazeera said from Tehran.
Will we accept the civil nuclear program?
Western governments, including the United States, have long accused Iran or who seek to develop nuclear weapons; An accusation that Tehran has denied, insisting that its nuclear program is only for peaceful civil use. On Wednesday, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said that Iran was “not far” from having a nuclear weapon.
Grossi was also in Rome at Saturday’s meeting, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. Grossi’s nuclear control agency would probably be central to verify Iran compliance in case an agreement is reached, as with the 2015 agreement.
The United States and Iran have not had diplomatic relations since shortly after the Islamic Revolution of Iran of 1979. After returning to office in January, Trump revived his campaign of “maximum pressure” sanctions against Tehran, but in March, he sent a letter to the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei asking for renewed negotiations, while warning the army.
“I’m in a hurry” to use force, Trump said Thursday. “I think they will go to talk.”
On Friday, Araghchi said that the United States showed “a degree of serious” duration of the first round of conversations, but questioned Washington’s “intentions and motivations.”
Bays said that the heart of the dispute remains if Iran can maintain a civil nuclear program, or if, as they insist on Washington, you must dismantle your nuclear program completely.
“Everything they have spoken on the legs about the week in Muscat and here in Rome is a framework for discussions and what they want to achieve,” Bays said. “They have not discussed the legs about the nuclear details … and the devil is in the detail of these things.”