Iran and the United States end fourth round of negotiations on the nuclear program of Amantehran – Montreal
Iran and the United States held a fourth round of negotiations on Tehran’s rapidly moving nuclear program on Sunday, just ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East this week.
A U.S. official said the negotiations took place in Muscat for about three hours. The capital of Oman is mediating negotiations. Iranian state television quoted Esmail Baghaei, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, saying that negotiations have been taking place for a long time and a decision to discuss the next round of talks is under discussion.
Bahá'i did not specify in detail. U.S. officials discussed the conditions for closed-door negotiations without anonymity, raising more topics, saying they were both indirect and direct.
“Agreement was reached to continue negotiations to continue working through technical elements,” U.S. officials said. “We are encouraged by today's results and look forward to the next meeting, which will take place in the near future.”
The negotiations were intended to limit Iran's nuclear program in exchange for some broken economic sanctions imposed by the United States on the Islamic Republic and ended in a half-century of hatred.
If a deal is not reached, Trump has repeatedly threatened to release air strikes against Iran. Iranian officials are increasingly warning that they can use uranium to store to near-weapon-level levels in pursuit of nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Israel threatened to threaten Iran's nuclear facilities, which has caused the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip to scream, which would cause Iran's nuclear facilities to attack on its own.
Iran's state television announced that the talks had begun. The United States did not comment immediately.
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The fourth round is before Trump's trip
The negotiations once again led the negotiations to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff. They met face to face and face to face in the negotiations, but most of the negotiations seemed indirect, with Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi sending messages between the two sides.
Iran insists that maintaining its ability to enrich uranium is the red line of its theocracy. Witkoff also first proposed in a TV interview that Iran may enrich uranium at 3.67%, and then said that all enrichment must be stopped.
“Iran state can no longer have a rich plan in Iran's country,” Witkov told the right-wing Breitbart News website in an article published on Friday. “That's our red line. No richness. It means demolition, which means that Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan (those are their three enrichment facilities) must be demolished.”
However, Aragic warned again that the abundance of Iran remains a red line.
“This is the right of the Iranian people and is reluctant to negotiate or compromise,” Araghchi said Sunday before leaving Tehran. “This rich salary has already paid a heavy price. The blood of our nuclear scientists has already paid for it. This is absolutely unnegotiable. This is a clear position we have always expressed. ”
Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers limited Tehran's enrichment to 3.67% and reduced its uranium storage to 300 kilograms (661 pounds). For nuclear power plants, this level is enough to be well below the weapon level 90%.
Since the nuclear deal collapsed in 2018 with Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the United States, Iran has abandoned all restrictions on its plan and enriched uranium to a maximum of 60% purity, a short and technical step at the weapon-level level. In recent years, there have been a series of attacks on sea and on land in recent years, even due to tensions before the Israel-Hamamas war began.
As negotiations continue, Iran is under pressure at home
Iran is also facing challenges at home and is subject to intensified sanctions. With negotiations reaching only $830,000 to $1, its troubled Rial currency once exceeded $1 million to $1.
But even if time ticks, both sides are far from any transaction. Iranian media widely reported that Trump imposed a two-month deadline in his first letter to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump said he wrote the letter on March 5, which arrived in Iran on March 12 through an Emilati diplomat – theoretically putting the deadline on Monday, when Trump set out from Washington for Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran's internal politics is still pirated by mandatory turbans or turbans, and women still ignore the laws on the streets of Tehran. Rumors also persist, and the government may increase the cost of subsidized gasoline in the country, which has sparked nationwide protests in the past.
Meanwhile, the final round of talks held in Oman on April 26 was a bomb that shocked the southern Iranian port, killing dozens of people and injuring more than 1,000 others. Iran has not yet explained what caused the explosion at the port of Shahid Rajaei, which is linked to a series of missile fuel components in the Islamic Republic.
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