United States and Iran They closed this Thursday no agreement are third round of conversations, but in Geneva, Switzerland have achieved “significant advances” in the dialogue and have called on another round of negotiations next week. This has been confirmed Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidithe Minister of Foreign Affairs of Omanthe mediating country between Washington and Tehran.
In a message on X, the head of Omani diplomacy announced that there will be “consultations with the respective capitals and next week talks will continue at technical level in One“, in Austria.
That ad It does not eliminate but it reduces the concern faced with the potential that the American president, Donald Trumpthrows a military attack on Iran, a fear triggered by statements of pressure and a forceful military deployment in the region unprecedented since 2003, when the Iraq war was launched.
He optimism is, in any case, extremely moderate. Washington has come to the meeting with very demanding demands, according to sources cited by ‘The Wall Street Journal’. These include that Iran completely destroy its three main nuclear facilities (in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan, which Trump attacked last summer), which hand over all enriched uranium to the US that he still has and that Any nuclear agreement applies forever.
For its part, Iran has rejected the idea of transfer its uranium reserves abroad, has objected to end enrichment of uranium, a dismantle its nuclear facilities already accept permanent restrictions in its nuclear program. This has also been stated by the ‘Journal’, citing both its own sources and Iranian state media.
Two visions of dialogue
Iranwhich to date has flatly refused to negotiate anything other than its nuclear program with USAassured this Thursday that an agreement with Washington It is possible if nuclear issues are “separated from non-nuclear issues.” Washington, however, is seeking an agreement that also includes the ballistic missiles of the Islamic Republicin addition to Iran’s support for its related militias throughout Near East.
Tehran has always refused to discuss these issues and has pressed, to date, to achieve an agreement that would lead the US to withdraw all its sanctions in exchange for lowering its uranium enrichmentcurrently close to the level necessary to develop the atomic bomb.
“Reduce distances”
The risk of war between the two countries—with much of the us fleet on the shores of Iran—is more real than ever. “In the meeting ideas have been proposed that we must consult with our capital. There is still a distance that has to be reduced“, an anonymous Iranian source declared to the agency this Thursday. Reuters.
To date, during the negotiations, Iran has been launching hollow messages although optimistic, seeking, according to experts, time at the negotiating table to avoid the attack by the United States.
“If we can’t even make progress on their nuclear program [durante las negociaciones]it will be difficult to make progress on ballistic missiles,” declared this Wednesday night the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Long conversations
This Thursday in Geneva the emissaries of Trump have been the usual representatives: his son-in-law, Jared Kushnerand his chief negotiator, Steven Witkoff. Both have made indirect meetings —through Oman and from different rooms—with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi.
Iranian state media, however, have reported that Part of the dialogue this Thursday has been carried out directly, suggesting that the delegates have met directly and not only, as in the format of previous rounds, only through the Omanis.
This Thursday’s meeting was the longest of all those held so far, with a first meeting in the morning and another, shorter one, in the afternoon, while the entire Middle East holds its breath at the possibility of a US intervention.
Last week Trump gave Tehran a period of between 10 and 15 days to reach an agreement, a supposed period that ends next week. The Republican threatened that if there was no agreement by then they would pass “bad things”.
In his State of the Union speech this Tuesday he also referred to Iran and although he left room to reach a diplomatic solution, he launched accusations not only about the Iranian nuclear program but also about its ballistic missiles, which supposedly can reach the US, something that Tehran denied.
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