Iran and the United States begin fourth round of negotiations on Oman’s Tehran nuclear program
The negotiations were intended to limit Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for some broken economic sanctions imposed by the United States on the Islamic Republic and ended in a half-century of hatred.
If a deal is not reached, Trump has repeatedly threatened to release air strikes against Iran. Iranian officials are increasingly warning that they can use uranium to store to near-weapon-level levels in pursuit of nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Israel threatened to threaten Iran’s nuclear facilities, which has caused the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip to scream, which would cause Iran’s nuclear facilities to attack on its own.
The fourth round is ahead of Trump’s journey, and the talks will again meet with Iranian Foreign Secretary Abbas Araghchi and U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff leading the negotiations. They met face to face and face to face in the negotiations, but most of the negotiations seemed indirect, with al-busaidi shuttled messages between the two sides.
Iran insists that maintaining its ability to enrich uranium is the red line of its theocracy. Witkoff also first proposed in a TV interview that Iran may enrich uranium at 3.67%, and then said that all enrichment must be stopped. “Iran state can no longer exist within Iran state,” Witkov told the right-wing Breitbart News website in an article published on Friday. “That’s our red line. No abundance. It means demolition, which means that Natanz, Fodo and Isfahan – these are their three enrichment facilities – must be demolished.” However, Aragic warned again that the level of abundance to Iran is still a red line.
“This is the right of the Iranian people to be reluctant to negotiate or compromise. Enrichment is one of the achievements and honors of the Iranian state,” Aragic said before leaving Tehran. “This richness comes at a heavy price. The blood of our nuclear scientists has been lost for it. It is absolutely unnegotiable. This is a clear position we have always expressed.”
Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers limited Tehran’s enrichment to 3.67% and reduced its uranium storage to 300 kilograms (661 pounds). For nuclear power plants, this level is enough to be well below the weapon level 90%.
Since the nuclear deal collapsed in 2018 with Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the United States, Iran has abandoned all restrictions of its plan and enriched uranium to up to 60% purity – a brief technical step from the weapon-level level. In recent years, there have been a series of attacks on sea and on land in recent years, even due to tensions before the Israel-Hamamas war began.
Iran is facing pressure at home, and as negotiations continue, Iran is facing challenges at home due to intensified sanctions. With negotiations reaching only $830,000 to $1, its troubled Rial currency once exceeded $1 million to $1.
But even if time ticks, both sides are far from any transaction. Iranian media widely reported that Trump imposed a two-month deadline in his first letter to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Trump said he wrote the letter on March 5, which arrived in Iran on March 12 through an Emilati diplomat – theoretically on Monday, when Trump set out from Washington to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Iran’s internal politics is still pirated by mandatory turbans or turbans, and women still ignore the laws on the streets of Tehran. Rumors also persist, and the government may increase the cost of subsidized gasoline in the country, which has sparked nationwide protests in the past.
Meanwhile, the final round of talks held in Oman on April 26 was a bomb that shocked the southern Iranian port, killing dozens of people and injuring more than 1,000 others. Iran has not yet explained what caused the explosion at the port of Shahid Rajaei, which is linked to a series of missile fuel components in the Islamic Republic.
