United States and Iran had a Second Round of Negotiations Saturday in Rome about Tehran Nuclear program that advances quicklyThe authorities said.
The envoy and multimillionaire of the United States Steve Witkoff with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, at the Omaní Embassy in the Rome neighborhood in Camilluccia. The negotiations were mediated by Omaní Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busidi.
After the meeting, Araghchi said the two countries agreed to have another round of negotiations in Oman 26. But experts will meet there in the previous days.
There was no immediate reading on the United States after several hours of meetings.
“The conversations were heroes in a constructive environment and I can say that he is advancing,” Araghchi told Iranian State Television. “I hope we are in a better position after technical conversations.”
The spokesman for the United States National Security Council, Brian Hughes, said in a statement before the conversations that President Trump has been clear that Iran “cannot have a nuclear weapon” and that “all options remain on the table.”
“The president has authorized direct and indirect discussions with Iran to clarify this point, but he has also made this continue indefinitely,” said Hughes. “The entire National Security Leadership team of the Trump administration is committed to the president’s position on Iran to guarantee peace and stability in the Middle East and security here at home.”
Capital of Oman, Muscat, Organized the first round of negotiations Between Araghchi and Witkoff last weekend, which saw the two men gather face to face after indirect conversations. Oman, a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arab Peninsula, has long served as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.
Oman’s Foreign Ministry said in A statement about x On Saturday, the parties agreed to continue talking to seek an agreement that ensures that Iran are “completely free of nuclear weapons and sanctions, and coining their capacity for developed nuclear energy.”
That conversations are only happening as representatives of a historical moment, given the decades of enmity between the two countries, the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the hostage crisis of the United States Embassy. Trump, in his first mandate, unilaterally withdrew from the Iran Nuclear Agreement with the World Powers in 2018, which establishes years of attacks and negotiations that could not restore the agreement that drastically limited the Uranium Orrices.
At risk it is a possible American or Israeli military strike in the nuclear sites of Iran, or the Iranians who carry out their threats to pursue an atomic weapon.
“I’m about to stop Iran, very simply, to have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said Friday. “They will go to be great, prosperous and excellent.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei, told the Iranian state television that the conversations were “indirect” with the delegations in “different rooms” at the embassy. He previously wrote on Saturday that Iran “always demonstrated, in good faith and a sense of responsibility, his commitment to diplomacy as a civilized way of solving problems.”
“We are aware that it is not a soft path, but we take every step with our eyes open, also trusting in the past experiences,” Baghaei added.
Araghchi with Saturday morning with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, before conversations with Witkoff.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations Nuclear Control Agency, also with Tajani on Saturday. Grossi’s agency would probably be key to verifying compliance by Iran if an agreement is reached, as it did with the 2015 agreement that Iran reached the world powers.
Tajani said that Italy was ready “to facilitate the continuation of conversations even for sessions at the technical level.”
A diplom agreement “is built patiently, day after day, with mutual dialogue and respect,” he said in a statement.
Meanwhile, tensions in the Middle East have shot The Israel-Hamas War in the Gaza Strip And after the US air attacks aimed at the Houthi rebels backed by Yemen, backed by Iranians, they killed more than 70 people and wounded boxes.
