Tehran Foreign Minister will travel to Moscow this week for consultations about Iran’s nuclear conversations with the United States, Iran and Russia have announced.
Abbas Araghchi will visit the Iranian ally at the end of this week, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday. The announcement of the trip, Door Araghchi will meet his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, said Moscow, occurred when details about a second set of conversations between Iran and the United States to follow an initial meeting in Oman said.
Araghchi’s visit to Russia “was planned in advance, but there will be consultations about conversations with the United States,” said the spokesman for the Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baghaei.
Iran and the United States said during the weekend that they had “positive” and “constructive” heroes conversations, although negotiations remain indirect with Oman acting as a mediator.
The two nations agreed to reconfound on Saturday with reports on Monday that they suggest that Rome will be host, he thought Iran prefers to Geneva.
The United States and its western allies are Iran or seek to use their nuclear program to develop weapons. Tehran says that work only has civil purposes.
Iran’s diplomatic efforts to resolve the nuclear dispute and raise the sanctions to its economy in difficulties have accelerated in the midst of the demands of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who have come with threats of military action.
Russia, a permanent member that pushes the veto of the United Nations Security Council, has played a role in recent years in nuclear negotiations between the West and Iran.
As Tehran ally, it was a signatory to a 2015 nuclear agreement that saw that international inspections agreed and sanctions decreased, but Trump left the agreement of Agreement as President in 2018.
Amid the renewed negotiations between Iran and the United States, Moscow has requested an approach to diplomatic contacts instead of actions that, according to him, can lead to a escalation.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affirmations confirmed on Monday that Foreign Minister Lavrov will meet with Araghchi.
“We wait for Iranian colleagues, conversations are planned with Sergey Lavrov, as well as meetings with Russian officials,” said Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Meetings in Moscow extend contacts among allies with respect to nuclear conversations. Shortly before the meeting in Oman, Russia and Iran had joined by China in the consultations.
In contrast, the Western allies of Washington, already marginalized by Trump in war conversations in Ukraine, are trying to avoid a similar destiny with respect to Iran.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noh Barot said on Monday that European states will observe closely the negotiations continue.
“We will be attentive along with our British and German friends and partners to ensure that anyone [US-Iran] The negotiations that may take place fulfill our security interests regarding Iran’s nuclear program, ”said Barrot when he arrived for a meeting of foreign ministers of the European Union in Luxembourg.
France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union negotiated the 2015 nuclear agreement along with Iran, China, Russia and the United States.
Meanwhile, the UN Nuclear Surveillance Chief Rafael Grossi will visit Tehran on Wednesday to meet Araghchi and other senior officials, Iranian officials said.
The general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA), who visited Iran for the last time when hero speaks with officials who included President Masoud Peeshkian, on social networks: “Continuous commitment and cooperation with modification is essential in an essentially necessary essence.”
In a report in February, the OIEA said Iran had an estimate of 274.8 kg (605 lb) or enriched uranium up to 60 percent, near the level of 90 percent necessary to make nuclear weapons.
Ambiguous signals
Before the next round of conversations, Iran and the United States continuous to sacrifice ambiguous signals.
Iran has not yet confirmed the location of the next round of conversations, but the sources have told the media that the discussions will take place in Rome.
Baghaei said that, as negotiations in Oman, the next round would remain indirect under Omaní mediation. Direct conversations are “non -effective” and “not useful,” said the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tehran continues to insist that the conversations will focus solely on the “nuclear problem and the lifting of the sanctions” and Iran “will not have any conversation with the US side on any other issue.”
Trump said the conversations were going well and told journalists in the United States on Sunday that after meeting with the advisors, the expected fast decision about the nuclear program.
