Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Jameneisaid Tuesday that the first steps of The Iranian were “good”. “They have been carried out well in the first steps,” he said during a meeting with parliamentarians in Tehran, in his first statements about negotiations with the US that began indirectly last Saturday in Oman.
Also, the highest Iranian political authority has asked “that negotiations continue in good way.” In this sense, he has affirmed that Conversations must be carried out with “precision” And he has remarked that Red lines are clear for both partiesalthough he has not clarified what they are.
Jameneí has confessed that he does not fully trust in the US, although he tries to maintain an optimistic tone: “Of course, we We distrust the other part, but we are optimistic about our abilities“
Therefore, he has called “Do not tie the country’s problems” to conversationsan error that in your opinion It was committed during the negotiations that led to the 2015 nuclear agreementbetween Iran and six powers.
USA and Iran maintained a first round of negotiations in Oman on Saturdaylooking for an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program in conversations that Tehran described as “constructive” and Washington as “positive”. The two countries, which do not maintain diplomatic relations, will face the next Saturday A new round in Oman, after it was reported that they would be in Rome.
Iranian Foreign Minister, Aboqchiand the American special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoffthey represented their countries in these indirect meetings in which they act as Omani diplomatic intermediaries.
Before this second conversations, Iran displays intense diplomatic activity With the next visits to Tehran of the Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA), Rafael Grossiand from Araqchí to Russia, one of its closest allies.
Conversations are held After the US president Donald Trump has threatened to attack the Persian country several times If they do not reach an agreement about the Iranian nuclear program. Initially, Jameneí closed the door to negotiate with the Trump administration, something he described as “neither intelligent, wise”, but later change of opinion.
During his first term (2017-2021), Trump withdrew the United States from the agreement signed in 2015 between Iran and other powerswhich established strict limits to Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for a relief of sanctions.
