Iran and the United States began this Saturday conversations in Oman In search of an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, Some contacts that occur in the midst of the threats of attacks against the Persian country by the US president, Donald Trump.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei announced in X the beginning of the conversations between the two rival countries in Mascate and said that Omani diplomats act as intermediaries.
The source indicated that the negotiating teams will be found in two separate rooms and “will exchange their views and positions through the Foreign Minister of Oman,” Badr Bin Hamad al Busaidi.
Foreign Minister Abás Araqchí leads Iran’s negotiation team, while the United States is represented by the special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, in negotiations that Washington ensures that they will be direct and that Tehran insists that they will occur indirectly.
Araqchí said on his arrival in Mascate this morning that he is looking for “a fair and honorable agreement from an equal position” and if the position of the United States is similar “there will be a possibility of an initial understanding that will lead to a path of negotiations.”
The veteran diplomatic, who already participated in the 2015 nuclear agreement, also insisted that will only negotiate on the nuclear issuewhat would leave out the Iranian missile program and Tehran’s support to regional groups, such as the Houthi of the Yemen or the Libanese of Hizbulá.
These differences occur after the US president himself, Donald Trump, has warned several times of possible attacks against Iran if the Ayatolás do not accept to negotiate an agreement and notices of the Persian country to cut all cooperation with the UN Atomic Agency.
During his first term (2017-2021), Trump withdrew the United States from an agreement signed in 2015 between Iran and other powers that established strict limits to Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for a relief of sanctions.
Since then, Iran enriches uranium well above what is allowed in the extinct agreement and already has 274 kilos enriched at 60 % purityclose to military use of 90 %, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA).
