The United States and Iran held The second round of negotiations Saturday in Tehran above Rome A fast-forward nuclear programOfficials said.
US Middle East envoy and billionaire Steve Witkoff met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the Oman embassy near Camilluccia in Rome. The negotiations were mediated by Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi.
“Today, in the second round of negotiations, in Rome, we have made great progress in direct and indirect discussions,” a U.S. official told CBS News. “We agree to meet again next week and thank our Omani partners for promoting these talks and our Italian partners for hosting us today.”
After the meeting, Aragic said the two countries agreed to hold another round of negotiations in Oman on April 26.
“The negotiations are held in a constructive environment and I can say that is moving forward,” Aragic told Iran’s state television. “I hope we will be in a better position after the technology negotiations.”
National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said in a statement ahead of the negotiations that President Trump knew Iran “cannot possess nuclear weapons” and that “all choices remain on the table.”
“The president has authorized direct and indirect discussions with Iran to show that it is clear, but he also made it clear that this cannot be done indefinitely,” Hughes said. “The entire national security leadership team of the Trump administration is committed to the president’s posture towards Iran to ensure peace and stability in the Middle East at home.”
Muscat, the capital of Oman The first round of negotiations was held The two men met face to face after indirect negotiations last weekend between Araghchi and Witkoff. Oman is a sultanate on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula and has long been Interviewers between Iran and the West.
The Omanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on X on Saturday that the two sides agreed to continue the conversation to ensure that Iran is “completely free of nuclear weapons and sanctions and maintains its ability to develop peaceful nuclear energy.”
In light of decades of hatred between the two countries since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis, negotiations even represent a historic moment. Mr. Trump’s first term unilaterally withdrew Iran’s nuclear deal with the world’s major powers in 2018, beginning years of attacks and negotiations that failed to restore a substantial limit on Tehran’s abundance of uranium in exchange for currencies that lifted economic sanctions.
At risk is a military strike by the United States or Israel in Iran’s nuclear sites, or a threat to follow them in pursuit of atomic weapons.
“I’m very simply stopping Iran from having nuclear weapons,” Trump said Friday. “I want Iran to be great, prosperous and excellent.”
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei told Iran State Television that the delegation of the “different halls” delegation from the embassy is “indirectly”. He wrote on X earlier on Saturday that Iran “always demonstrated its commitment to diplomacy as a civilized way of solving problems with sincerity and responsibility.”
“We know it’s not a smooth road, but we’ve opened our eyes and taken every step, relying on past experiences,” Baghaei added.
Araghchi met with Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Saturday morning ahead of his talks with Witkoff.
International Atomic Energy Agency head Rafael Mariano Grossi also met with Tayani on Saturday. Grossi’s agency is likely to be the key to verifying Iran’s deal, just like the agreement Iran has reached with the world’s major powers in 2015.
Tayani said Italy is ready to “continue negotiations even on a technical level.”
“Day in and day out, a foreign ministry agreement was established with dialogue and mutual respect,” he said in a statement.
Meanwhile, tensions in the Middle East are getting increasingly Israel in the Gaza Strip – Hamas War More than 70 people were killed and dozens of people were injured after the U.S. air strikes by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, with Yemen-backed Iran.
