United States and Iran had a Second Round of Negotiations In Rome about Tehran’s Nuclear program that advances quicklyThe authorities said.
The United States official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss closed negotiations at the Omar Embassy in the Rome neighborhood in Camilluccia. Iranian state media also reported that the conversations that began just before noon on Saturday when journalists observed outside.
The envoy and multimillionaire of the Middle East of the United States. If the two men find a common land in high -risk negotiations, they could mean success or failure in conversations.
The negotiations will be mediated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Omar, Badr Al-Busidi.
The spokesman for the United States National Security Council, Brian Hughes, said in a statement before the conversations Trump has been clear that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon” and that “all options remain on the table.”
“The president has authorized direct and indirect discussions with Iran to clarify this point, but he has also made this continue indefinitely,” said Hughes. “The entire National Security Leadership team of the Trump administration is committed to the president’s position on Iran to guarantee peace and stability in the Middle East and security here at home.”
Capital of Oman, Muscat, Organized the first round of negotiations Between Araghchi and Witkoff last weekend, which saw the two men gather face to face after indirect conversations. Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arab Peninsula, has long served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.
That conversations are only happening as representatives of a historical moment, given the decades of enmity between the two countries, the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the hostage crisis of the United States Embassy. Trump, in his first mandate, unilaterally withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Agreement with the World Powers in 2018, which establishes years of attacks and negotiations that could not restore the agreement that drastically limited the Uranium Orrices.
At risk it is a possible American or Israeli military strike in the nuclear sites of Iran, or the Iranians who carry out their threats to pursue an atomic weapon.
“I’m about to stop Iran, very simply, to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said Friday. “They will go to be great, prosperous and excellent.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, told the Iranian state television that the conversations were “indirect” with the delegations in “different rooms” at the embassy. He previously wrote on Saturday that Iran “always demonstrated, in good faith and a sense of responsibility, his commitment to diplomacy as a civilized way of solving problems.”
“We are aware that it is not a soft path, but we take every step with our eyes open, also trusting in the past experiences,” Baghaei added.
Araghchi with Saturday morning with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, before conversations with Witkoff.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations Nuclear Control Agency, also with Tajani on Saturday. Grossi’s agency would probably be key to verifying compliance by Iran if an agreement is reached, as it did with the 2015 agreement that Iran reached the world powers.
Tajani said that Italy was ready “to facilitate the continuation of conversations even for sessions at the technical level.”
A diplom agreement “is built patiently, day after day, with mutual dialogue and respect,” he said in a statement.
Meanwhile, tensions in the Middle East have shot The Israel-Hamas War in the Gaza Strip And after the US air attacks aimed at the Houthi rebels backed by Yemen, backed by Iranians, they killed more than 70 people and wounded boxes.