Iran and the United States will hold more negotiations next weekTehran program fast nuclear progressIranian government television informed on Saturday at the end of the first round of the talks between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Iranian state television said that our Middle East envoy Steve Witkov and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragshi “spoke shortly in the presence of the Omani Foreign Minister” at the end of the talks, which represents direct interactions between the two countries detained in decades of tensions.

US officials did not immediately recognize Iranian reports, which are likely to accelerate Tehran to its fans before the potential Trump publication on social media. However, the announcement that the two sides spoke to the face-even if it was shortly-indicated that the negotiations went well.

The conversations started at about 3:30 pm. The two sides spoke for more than two hours on a location in the outskirts of Amman, and ending the talks at approximately 5:50 pm local time. The convoy, which is believed to carry Witkoff, returned to Muscat, the capital of Oman, before it disappeared in traffic around a neighborhood that includes the American embassy.

The risks of negotiations cannot be higher for the two countriesClose in half a century of hostility. Trump has repeatedly threatened to launch air strikes targeting the Iranian nuclear program if an agreement was not reached. Iranian officials are increasingly warning that they can follow a nuclear weapon with their in stock of enriched uranium to the levels of the weapons near.

The conversations took place on Saturday afternoon in Amman

AP journalists saw a convoy believed to carry Witkoff leaving the Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday afternoon and then rushed into the outskirts of Muscat. The convoy entered a complex a few minutes later, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ashmil Baji, wrote on the social platform x The “indirect conversations” started.

“These talks will be held on a planned site for the Omani host, with representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States sitting in the halls and sides, and they transfer their views and attitudes to each other through the Omani Foreign Minister.”

About an hour later, Baghaei appeared on Iranian government television and admitted that the talks were continuing all of that time.

“The goal of the Islamic Republic of Iran is very clear – we have only one goal, and this is to protect Iran’s national interests,” he said. “We give a real and honest opportunity for diplomacy, so that through dialogue we can move forward in the nuclear issue on the one hand, and most importantly for us, lift the sanctions.”

Baghaei added: “Look, this is just a beginning. So it is natural that at this point, both sides will present their foundational positions through the Omani mediator. Therefore, we do not expect this round of negotiations to be lengthy,” Baghaei added.

Araghchi spoke earlier to Iranian journalists.

“If there is enough will on both sides, we will decide a schedule. But it is still too early to talk about it,” Aragchi said in an audio clip published by IRNA. “What is clear now is that negotiations are indirect, and in our opinion only on the nuclear issue, it will be made with the necessary will to reach an agreement on an equal footing and lead to securing the national interests of the Iranian people.”

Trump and Wittouf the conversations described it as “directly”.

“I think our position begins with the dismantling of your program. This is our position today,” Witkov told the Wall Street Journal before his journey. “This does not mean, by the way, that on the sidelines we will not find other ways to find a compromise between the two countries.”

He added: “Where our red line will be, there can be no weapon for your nuclear ability.”

The reduction of penalties and enrichment remains the highest cases

While the United States team can provide relief sanctions on the besieged economy in Iran, it is still not clear how much Iran will be ready to waive it. Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran was unable to maintain a small in stock of enriched uranium to 3.67 %. Today, Tehran stock can be allowed to build multiple nuclear weapons if it chooses this and has some fertilized materials by up to 60 %, which is a short technical step away from degrees levels. Based on the negotiations since Trump from one side with the deal from the deal in 2018, Iran is likely to request continued enriching uranium to at least 20 %.

One thing that will not do is completely abandon its program. This makes the proposal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from a Libyan solution called “You are entering, bombing facilities, dismantling all equipment, under American supervision, American death”-non-practical.

The Iranians, including Ayatollah Ali Khameneini, exposed what happened in the end to the late Libyan dictator Mahamir Gaddafi, who was killed by his gun by the rebels in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising in the country, as a warning about what could happen when you trust the United States.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

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