Tehran:
The United States and Iran on Saturday opened high-dialogue on Tehran’s nuclear program, threatening military action by President Donald Trump, if they fail to make a deal.
Both sides entered the “indirect” talks – through an intermediary – in the Omani capital Muscat, said Iran’s Foreign Ministry. Americans called for meetings face to face.
Disagreement on the format indicated long -term opponents, seeking a new nuclear deal after Trump’s first agreement during his first term in 2018.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is leading the Iranian delegation, while Trump’s special envoy Steve Witcoff is the head of the US team.
“Our intention is to reach a fair and respectable agreement from a similar situation,” Argchi said in a video posted by Iranian State TV.
Iran is demanding relief from comprehensive sanctions for its economy, weaker than Hizbullah and Hamas in Gaza, Israel in Lebanon.
Tehran has agreed to the meetings despite Trump’s campaign to increase restrictions and repeat military threats in Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign.
Meanwhile, the US, Hand-in-Glov, with Iran’s Arc-Animi Israel, wants to prevent Tehran from getting closer to developing atomic bombs anytime.
Witkoff opened for ‘compromise’
Witchoff had earlier told The Wall Street Journal that “our situation today” begins with demanding that Iran completely ends its nuclear program – a scene organized by fundamentalists around Trump around Trump that Iran will accept anytime.
“This does not mean, by the way, on the margin we are not going to find other ways to find an agreement between the two countries,” Witchoff told the newspaper.
He said, “Where there will be our red line, your nuclear capacity cannot be armed.”
A surprising announcement by Trump revealed talks as he met the press with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday.
A few hours before the beginning, Trump told reporters in the Air Force: “I want Iran to be a wonderful, great, happy country. But they cannot have nuclear weapons.”
Ali Shamkhani, advisor to Irani supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Tehran was “demanding a real and fair agreement”, saying that “important and implementable proposals are prepared”.
Saturday’s contact between the two sides, which had not had diplomatic relations for decades, follow the repeated dangers of military action by both the United States and Israel.
“If this requires the army, we are going to be military,” Trump said on Wednesday what would happen if the conversation fails to make a deal.
Responding to Trump’s danger, Tehran said that it could expel the United Nations nuclear inspectors, a step that Washington warned would be a “growth”.
‘Existence of governance’
The 2015 deal targeted to get out of Trump, which aims to manufacture an atomic bomb for Iran, while at the same time it allowed it to pursue a civil nuclear program.
Britain, China, France, Russia and other aspects of the Germany agreement were Araghchi a prominent architect.
Iran, which emphasizes its nuclear program, is only for civil purposes, Trump carried forward his activities after leaving the 2015 agreement.
The latest International Atomic Energy Agency report mentions with “serious concern” that Iran had an estimated 274.8 kg of uranium up to 60 percent, near the weapon grade of 90 percent.
Karim Bitar, a lecturer at the Middle East Study of Sciences Po University in Paris, said the conversation would “not be particularly focused on the nuclear program”.
Long -standing demand by American colleagues in the Gulf, “The deal will have to stop their support to their regional colleagues.”
For Iran, this may be a matter of great existence of the government.
“Another priority is the existence of governance, and ideally, some oxygen, to relieve some restrictions, to go back to their economy, because the regime has become quite unpopular,” said Bitter.
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