- Iran, United States, we will hold the fourth round of talks in Muscat.
- Trump’s trip to the Middle East will start on May 13.
- The best Witkoff negotiator says that the red line is “no enrichment”.
Dubai: The main Iranian and American negotiators will resume talks on Sunday to fight against the nuclear program of Tehran, in a push of progress while Washington hardens its position before the visit of the Middle East of American President Donald Trump.
Although Tehran and Washington both declared that they prefer diplomacy to resolve the dispute of several decades, they remain deeply divided on several red lines that the negotiators will have to go around to conclude a new nuclear agreement and avoid future military action.
The Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and the Middle East Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff will hold the fourth round of Muscat talks through Omani mediators, although Washington takes a difficult position in public who, according to Iranian officials, would not help negotiations.
Witkoff said Breitbart News On Thursday, Washington’s red line is: “No enrichment. This means dismantling, no weapon”, requiring the complete dismantling of Iranian nuclear installations 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,” said Witkoff in the interview.
Trump, who threatened military action against Iran in the event of diplomacy failure, will go to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates from May 13 to 16.
Reacting to the comments of Witkoff, Araqchi said on Saturday that Iran would not compromise on its nuclear rights.
“Iran continues in good faith in good faith … If the aim of these talks is to limit Iran’s nuclear rights, I clearly declare that Iran will not retreat from its rights,” said Araqchi.
Tehran is willing to negotiate borders on his nuclear work in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, according to Iranian officials, but ending his enrichment program or making his stock of enriched uranium are “the red lines of Iran which could not be compromised” in the discussions.
A senior Iranian civil servant close to the negotiation team said that US requests for “zero enrichment and the dismantling of Iranian nuclear sites would not help to progress in negotiations”.
“What the United States says differ publicly from what is said in negotiations,” said the official on condition of anonymity.
He said things would become clearer when the talks would take place on Sunday, which was initially scheduled for May 3 in Rome but was postponed because of what Oman described as “logistical reasons”.
In addition, Iran has categorically excluded the negotiation of its ballistic missile program and the office establishment requires that waterproof water guarantees would not abandon a nuclear pact.
Trump, who has restored a “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran since February, left the Tehran nuclear pact with six world powers in 2018 during his first mandate and reprinted paralyzing sanctions against Iran.
Iran, which has long declared that its nuclear program was peaceful, has violated the nuclear borders of the 2015 PACT since 2019, in particular “considerably” its enrichment of uranium up to 60% purity, near the level of around 90% which is of the quality of weapons, according to the UN nuclear watchdog.
