The United States and Iran on Saturday, April 19, concluded a second round of high -risk conversations on Tehran’s nuclear program, with Iranian media saying that discussions have a “constructive environment.”
The conversations mediated by Oman in Rome began around 10:30 am, Paris time, and ended about four hours later, according to Iranian state television. The images transmitted by state television showed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, reaching the Italian capital, and the envoy of the Middle East of the United States Steve Witkoff also hoped to participate.
The spokeswoman of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baqaei, said that the delegations were “in two different rooms” in the residence of the Omaní ambassador, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Oman, Badr Albusaidi, transmitting messages between.
After the conversations concluded, Iranian state television reported that “because the constructive atmosphere that has created bone created, it is likely that in the next few days” the parties have more discussions. “
The meeting comes a week after the two parties had what Iran called indirect talks in Muscat. Those were the first discussions at such a high level among enemies since the president of the United States, Donald Trump, left an emblematic nuclear agreement in 2018.
Western countries, including the United States, have long accused Iran or that seek to acquire nuclear weapons, an accusation that Tehran has constantly denied, insisting that their program is for peaceful civil purposes.
Tehran and Washington have not had diplomatic relations since shortly after the Islamic revolution of Iran of 1979. After his return to office in January, Trump revived his campaign of “maximum pressure” of sanctions against Iran. In March, he sent a letter to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei urging the renewed nuclear conversations while warning about military action if diplomacy failed. “I’m in a hurry” to use the military option, Trump said Thursday. “I think Iran moves to speak.”
On Friday, Araghchi said Iran “observed a degree of serious” on the side of the United States during the first round, but questioned his “intentions and motivations.” In a publication on social networks on the early Saturday, Baqaei said that Tehran was “aware that it is not a soft path that we take at every step with our eyes open, also trusting in the past experiences.”
The leader of the mediator Oman, Sultan Haitham Bin Tariq, will be presented in Moscow in the next few days, according to his office and the Kremlin, who said he would be discussed with President Vladimir Putin “current questions about international and regional affairs.
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