- Iran, we to celebrate the fourth round of conversations in Muscat.
- Trump’s trip to the Middle East will begin on May 13.
- The main Witkoff negotiator says that the US red line. It is not ‘enrichment’.
Dubai: The main Iranian and American negotiators will resume conversations on Sunday to address disputes about Tehran’s nuclear program, in an impulse for progress as Washington hardens its position ahead of the visit of the Middle East of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Although Tehran and Washington have said that they prefer diplomacy to resolve the dispute of decades, they remain deeply divided into several red lines that negotiators will have to avoid to reach a new nuclear agreement and avoid future military actions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, and the envoy of the Middle East of Trump, Steve Witkoff, will celebrate the fourth round of conversations in Muscat through Omaní mediators, despite the fact that Washington adopted a hard position in public that Iranian officials said they would not help negotiations.
Witkoff said Breitbart news On Thursday, the red line of Washington is: “Without enrichment. That means dismantling, without weapons”, which requires the complete dismantling of Iran’s nuclear facilities in Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan.
“If they are not productive on Sunday, then they will not continue and we will have to take a different route,” Witkoff said in the interview.
Trump, who has threatened military action against Iran if diplomacy fails, travels to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates from May 13 to 16.
In reaction to Witkoff’s comments, Araqchi said on Saturday that Iran would not commit to their nuclear rights.
“Iran continues the negotiations in good faith … If the objective of these conversations is to limit the nuclear rights of Iran, I clearly affirm that Iran does not go back to any of their rights,” said Araqchi.
Tehran is willing to negotiate some curbs in its nuclear work in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, according to Iranian officials, but finish their enrichment program or deliver their enriched uranium reserve are among the “red lines of Iran that could not commit” in conversations.
A high Iranian official close to the negotiation team said that the American demands of “zero enrichment and dismantling of Iran’s nuclear sites would not help progress the negotiations.”
“What the United States says publicly differs from what is said in negotiations,” said the official based on anonymity.
He said the issues would become clearer when conversations will take place on Sunday, which was initially planned for May 3 in Rome, but postponed due to what Oman described as “logistic reasons.”
In addition, Iran has flatly ruled out the negotiation of its ballistic missile program and the clerical establishment requires that the waterproof guarantee that Trump would not abandon a nuclear pact.
Trump, who has restored a “maximum pressure” campaign in Tehran since February, left the Tehran nuclear pact in 2015 with six world powers in 2018 during his first term and reimposed the paralyzing sanctions against Iran.
Iran, who has long said that its nuclear program is peaceful, has breached the PACT nuclear curbs 2015 since 2019, including the acceleration “dramatically” accelerating its enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the level of approximately 90% that is of degree of weapons, according to the UN nuclear guard.
