- Steve Witkoff plans to meet with Iran’s Foreign Minister in Oman.
- Trump is looking for a new nuclear agreement with Iran.
- The president of the United States withdrew from a 2015 agreement in his first term.
Washington: The special envoy of the United States, Steve Witkoff, plans to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Oman, on Sunday and discuss Iran’s response to a recent US proposal for a nuclear agreement, an American official said Wednesday night.
Iran said on Monday that he will soon deliver a counterproposal for a nuclear agreement to the United States in response to an American offer that Tehran considers “unacceptable”, while the president of the United States, Donald Trump, said the conversations would continue.
Trump told a podcast on Monday that he was less sure that Iran will agree to stop uranium enrichment in a nuclear agreement with Washington.
The president of the United States has been looking for a new nuclear agreement to impose limits on the disputed uranium enrichment activities of Iran and has threatened the Islamic Republic with bombing if no agreement is reached.
Iran has said for a long time that he has no plans to develop nuclear weapons and is only interested in the generation of atomic energy and other peaceful projects.
During his first mandate in the White House, Trump withdrew the United States from a 2015 agreement between Iran and the world powers that placed limits to the Tehran uranium enrichment campaign in exchange for relief from international sanctions.
The awkward relationships between Iran and the United States date back to decades. Tehran says that Washington has interfered in its affairs, citing events that range from a coup d’etat of 1953 against a prime minister to the murder of 2020 of its military commander in a strike of unmanned planes.
Washington cites the support of Iran of militant groups in the Middle East, Lebanon and Yemen, to say that Iran represents a threat to the interests of the ally of the United States and Washington in the region.
The militant groups describe themselves as the “resistance axis” to Israeli and the United States influence in the Middle East.
Trump said Wednesday that American staff were being transferred out of the Middle East because “it could be a dangerous place.”
The decision of the United States to evacuate some personnel arrives at a volatile moment in the region.
