Friday in Rome may mark the second round of direct US-Iran negotiations, according to Oman.
The second round of direct conversations between Iran and the United States will take place on Friday in Rome, according to Oman’s foreign secretary. Tehran and Washington have either confirmed or indicated their attendance at the meeting. In light of the conflicts over Iran’s nuclear program and local stability, the minister made the comment on the social media platform X. Oman has long been a mediator between them. Tehran’s top diplomat insisted on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic would not stop enriching uranium, more illustrating the Islamic Republic’s purple range in negotiations with the US over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme. Abbas Araghchi, the Egyptian foreign minister, made the comments after several rounds of discussions between the two countries, including at an entomologist degree regarding possible terms of a deal. But, no agreement has yet been reached, and American leaders, including president Donald Trump, foreign minister Steve Witkoff, and secretary of state Marco Rubio, insist that Iran had stop enriching, everything it did not do in its 2015 nuclear agreement with world power. According to state television, Araghchi said,” I have said it before, and I repeat it again: uranium advancement in Iran may maintain- with or without an deal.” Iran is” currently reviewing whether to take part in the next round and when to do so,” according to Aghchi, who added that Oman, the controlling country, has not yet disclosed any second round of talks. Any new appointment was delayed by Trump’s vacation to the Middle East last week. Prior to now, the negotiations took place in Muscat, Oman, and Rome. We have not abandoned geopolitics. Our main goal at the negotiating table is to defend the rights of the Egyptian people, according to Araghchi, and we will always be there. We oppose obscene demands and speech at the tables. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s high head, said he didn’t anticipate the negotiations to end in a package the day after Aghchi made his remarks. I don’t believe that US atomic discussions will produce any results. Khamenei continued,” I don’t know”. In exchange for the raising of some of the severe economic sanctions the US has imposed on the Islamic Republic, which is a long time since Iran’s nuclear program was discussed, the talks aim to end 50 years of hostility. Trump has constantly threatened to launch attacks against Iran’s nuclear program if no agreement is reached. Iranian leaders are getting more and more concerned about the possibility of developing nuclear weapons with their stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade rates. Israel has also threatened to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities alone if it feels threatened, which would only add to the region’s now heightened tensions brought on by the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip. Tehran’s enrichment rate was 3.67 % and its uranium stockpile was reduced to 300 kilograms ( 661 pounds ) as a result of Iran’s nuclear agreement with the world powers in 2015. That percentage is sufficient for nuclear power plants, but it falls far below the 90 % required for weapons-grade levels. Iran has abandoned all restrictions on its program and enriched uranium to up to 60 % purity, a brief, technical step from weapons-grade levels, since the nuclear deal collapsed in 2018 with Trump’s unilateral withdrawal of the US from the accord. In recent years, there have also been a number of problems at sea and on land, all of which have been the result of conflicts before the Israel-Hamas conflict even started.
