Iran and the United States will hold a fourth round of conversations about the nuclear program of the Islamic Republic in Rome on Saturday, said Iran Foreign Minister.
The adversaries have long held three rounds of conversations with the objective of an agreement in the program, which the West believes that it is destined to develop nuclear weapons, an accusation that Tehran denies.
The conversations, which began on April 12 and are mediated by Oman, are the highest level contact in years between the two parties.
“The next round of negotiations will take place in Rome,” said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, after a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.
The main diplomat said that Iranian officials would also meet on Friday with representatives of Great Britain, France and Germany, all parties in the 2015 nuclear agreement.
The agreement requested the lifting of the sanctions in exchange for curbing Iran’s nuclear activities, but it collapsed when Washington retired in 2018 during Donald Trump’s first mandate as president of the United States.
After France threatened that the European trio could reimpose the sanctions, the UN mission of Iran said that “threats and economic blackmail” were “completely unacceptable.”
“Genuine diplomacy cannot proceed under threats or pressure,” said the diplomatic mission in a letter taken Wednesday by Iran. ISNA news agency.
Trump sent a letter in March to the Supreme leader of Iran, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, urging conversations and warning about the possible military action if Iran refused.
Since he returned to office in January, Trump revived his campaign of “maximum pressure” sanctions, reflecting his approach during his first mandate.
Tehran has insisted that ongoing conversations should focus only on the nuclear problem and the lifting of sanctions.
During the last round in the capital of Omar, Muscat on Saturday, both parties reported progress.
Iran hung ‘high -ranking spy’ for Israel: Judicial
Iran has executed a man sentenced by espionage by the Esrael Mossad Espionage Agency and participation in the 2022 murder of a revolutionary guard colonel, said the Judiciary.
Mohsen Langarnesshin, described as “a high -ranking spy” that supported Mossad’s operations inside Iran, was hanged in the morning, said the judiciary Mizan online News website.
The report did not specify when Langoshin had been arrested or sentenced.
He said he was involved in the murder of the colonel of the Sayyad Khodaei guards, who was shot dead by two motorcyclists on his way home in Tehran in May 2022.
According The New York TimesIsrael told the United States that he was responsible for the murder.
The Judiciary accused Langarneshin of having “bought a motorcycle to monitor” Khodaei movements.
The state television in Iran said that Khodaei was a member of the Quds force, the arms of foreign operations of the guards, and that it was “known” in Syria, where Tehran had provided military support to the government of the now expelled President Bashar al-Assad.
They will often announce the arrests of alleged spies, including the agents that are said to be helping Tehran Israel’s archNiene.
A man was executed in December 2023 after being convicted of collaborating with the Mossad. Four others were hanged a year earlier for alleged ties with Israel.
