The United States and Iran made “constructive” conversations about Tehran’s nuclear program on Saturday, April 12, and agree to meet again, Donald Trump threatens military action if they do not reach an agreement. Omaní Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said the conversations took place in a “friendly atmosphere,” added: “We continually work together.”
Oman’s Foreign Minister acted as an intermediary in high -risk conversations in Muscat, Iran said. The Americans had asked for meetings to be face to face. However, the negotiators also spoke directly for “a few minutes” and “The two parties agreed to continue the thesis conversations next week,” said Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said the conversations were carried out “in a respectful constructive and mutual atmosphere.”
The disagreement on the format indicated the scale of the task faced by the long -term adversaries, which are looking for a new nuclear agreement after Trump withdrew from a first term of the door agreement in 2018.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, an experienced diplomat and key architect of the 2015 agreement, directed the Iranian delegation, while Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, a real estate tycoon, led the US team. “Our intention is to reach a fair and honorable agreement since the same position,” Araghchi said previously in a video posted by Iranian state television.
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Iran, Esmaeil Baqaei, previously told the station that the negotiations were “only a beginning.” The two parties were in “separate rooms” and were “transmitting their views and positions with each other through the Omani Foreign Minister,” he published separately in X.
Iran, weakened by Israel’s coup or his allies Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, is looking for a relief of large -range sanctions that coincide their economy. Tehran agreed the meetings despite insisting on Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign to increase sanctions and repeated military threats. Meanwhile, the United States, with the hand with Iran’s Archionemigo, Israel, wants to prevent Tehran from approaching a nuclear bomb.
Witkoff open to ‘commitment’
Witkoff said The Wall Street Journal Previously, the position of the United States begins with demanding that they will complete to dismantle its nuclear program, an opinion that has uncompromising around Trump that few hope they will accept. “That does not mean, by the way, that in the margin we will not find other ways to find commitment between the two countries,” Witkoff told the newspaper. “Where our red line will be, there can be no weapons of its nuclear capacity,” he added.
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The conversations were revealed in a surprise advertisement for the duration of Trump, an appearance in the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. Hours before they started, Trump told journalists aboard Air Force One: “I want Iran to be a wonderful, great and happy country. But they can’t have a nuclear weapon.”
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ali Shamkhani, said Iran was “looking for a real and fair agreement.”
Saturday’s contact between the two parties, which do not have diplomatic relations for decades, follows the repeated threats of military action by the United States and Israel. “If you require military, we will have military,” Trump said Wednesday when asked what would happen if the conversations failed.
The 2015 multiparty agreement that Trump abandoned aimed that it was practical that they will build an atomic bomb, at the same time that allows him to follow a civil nuclear program. Iran, who insists that his nuclear program is only for civil purposes, intensified his activities after Trump retired from the agreement.
The last international atomic energy agency said Iran had an estimate of 274.8 kilograms of uranium enriched at 60%, grade of sneapons or 90%
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