Iranian President Masoud Peeshkian said Wednesday that he hopes that an agreement with the United States can be reached, since the two countries prepare for a second round of nuclear conversations this weekend.
“Naturally we would welcome the conclusion of an agreement” with the United States, the Iran official IRNA The news agency quoted fish -saying during a cabinet meeting.
The first round of conversations, held last Saturday in the capital of Oman, Muscat, was directed by the special envoy of the United States Steve Witkoff and Foreign Minister Iraní Abbas Abbas Araghchi.
The next round of nuclear conversations between Iran and the United States will take place on Saturday in Italy and not in Oman, Iranian state media reported.
“The second round of nuclear conversations of Iran-United States will take place next Saturday in Rome … and the Omaní Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be the host of conversations,” said Iranian State TV.
European officials had previously said that conversations would take place in Rome, but Iranian officials had insisted that they would be held in Oman.
Also on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed AFP that conversations would take place in Rome.
The spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of Iran, Esmaeil Baqaei, in an X publication, seemed to criticize the change of the location of the conversations.
“In diplomacy, such movement, promoted by extremist elements that lack an understanding of the logic or art of reasonable negotiation, can endanger any beginning,” he said, adding that it can “be seen as a lack of seriousness and good faith.”
Iran FM says that the enrichment of uranium ‘non -negotiable’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that the enrichment of Uranium of Iran as part of his nuclear program was “not negotiable” after the special envoy of the United States. Uu. Steve Witkoff asked to stop.
“Iran enrichment is a real and accepted matter. We are ready to generate confidence in response to possible concerns, but the question of enrichment is not negotiable,” Araghchi told journalists after a cabinet meeting.
Araghchi condemned what he called the “contradictory and conflicting positions” that left the Trump administration before Saturday’s conversations.
“We will discover the true opinions of the Americans during the negotiation session,” he said.
Iran’s main diplomat said he expected to begin negotiations within the framework of a possible agreement, but said he required “constructive positions” of the United States.
“If we continue [hear] Contradictory and conflicting positions, we will have problems, ”he warned.
Araghchi will go to the Iranian ally of Russia on Thursday, said Iran Ambassador to Moscow, Kazem Jalili. Iran has said that the visit was “previously planned”, but will include discussions about united Iran-states conversations.
“The goal of [my] The trip to Russia is to convey a written message of the supreme leader ”to the Russian president Vladimir Putin, Araghchi said.
##: They will ‘not far’ from the nuclear bomb: Head of the OIEA
Meanwhile, the UN nuclear control agency head was summoned by saying in a I monde The interview published on Wednesday that Iran is not far from having an atomic bomb, only a few hours before a visit to Tehran for conversations with senior officials.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (OIEA), Rafael Grossi, said that Iran still had a way to go before obtaining the bomb, but added: “They are not far from that, you have to recognize.”
Grossi compared the development of a nuclear weapon with a puzzle, adding that Iran “has the pieces and eventually could make them someday.”
In his latest report, the OIEA said Iran had an estimate of 274.8 kilograms of uranium enriched up to 60 percent. This level far exceeds the 3.67pc roof established by the 2015 agreement, but it still does not reach the 90PC threshold required for a nuclear head.
The UN control agency had the task of supervising Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement that collapsed after Donald Trump retired during his first term as president of the United States.
