During talks at the Oman's embassy in Rome, the American side was represented by a special envoy of the US President for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, and the mediator was the head of diplomacy of Oman Badr al-Busaidi. The head of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani, was also present. The general director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Maea) Rafael Grossi also arrived.
The third round of US-IRAN negotiations on the Iranian Atomic Program will take place on April 26 in Oman, and on Wednesday (April 23) there will be conversations at the technical level-Aragczi reported journalists. – We will discuss the result of expert meetings to assess whether there is close to the agreement – he added.
He assessed that the Saturday meeting was good and “negotiations are ongoing”. “This time we managed to reach a larger agreement on a number of rules and goals,” Aragczi said, pointing out that the talks only concern the issues of the atomic program.
“We are neither big optimists nor large pessimists”
– We are talking with attention and calmness, there is no reason to be nervous. We act with caution and we are neither great optimists nor large pessimists – he added.
The Chief of Diplomacy Oman Busidi, who after the Roman conversation round, said greater optimism, assessed that the negotiations “gain pace and even what is unlikely is possible“.
The first round took place on April 12 in the capital of Oman, mask. It was the first meeting of the US and Iran authorities at such a high level in eight years. It took place in the intermediate formula: the pages were in separate rooms, and the news between them was transmitted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Oman.
US President Donald Trump during his first term (2017-21) withdrew the US from an agreement concluded in 2015 between Iran and world powers. Under this agreement, Iran's sanctions were softened in exchange for tehran's commitment to limit the nuclear program. After leaving the agreement, Trump restored severe American sanctions against the Iranian state.
Since then, Iran has significantly exceeded the permissible limits regarding the enrichment of uranium. The West accuses Tehran of striving to obtain nuclear weaponsas evidenced by enriching uranium to a level exceeding civil needs.
