TEHRAN: Iran‘s international minister Abbas Araghchi is ready to go to Moscow this week to debate current nuclear negotiations with the US held in Oman, the international ministry spokesman stated on Monday.
On Saturday, Araghchi held talks with US Center East envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat, the highest-level Iranian-US nuclear negotiations for the reason that collapse of a 2015 accord.
“Dr Araghchi will journey to Moscow on the finish of the week,” stated spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei, including that the journey was “pre-planned” and can be “a possibility to debate the most recent developments associated to the Muscat talks.”
Iran and the US individually described Saturday’s discussions as “constructive”.
The negotiations got here weeks after US President Donald Trump despatched a letter to Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for nuclear talks whereas warning of attainable navy motion if Tehran refused.
Russia, an in depth ally of Iran, and China have held discussions with Iran in current weeks over its nuclear programme.
Moscow welcomed the Iran-US talks because it pushed for a diplomatic answer and warned that navy confrontation can be a “international disaster”.
One other spherical of talks between Iran and the US is scheduled for Saturday, April 19.
Purple strains
The official IRNA information company reported that they’d be held in Europe, with out elaborating.
Baqaei stated the following set of talks would proceed to be oblique with Omani mediation, including that direct talks have been “not efficient” and “not helpful”.
He had beforehand stated that the one focus of the upcoming talks can be “the nuclear subject and the lifting of sanctions”, and that Iran “is not going to have any talks with the American aspect on some other subject”.
Late Sunday, IRNA reported that Tehran’s regional affect and its missile capabilities have been amongst its “pink strains” within the talks.
In 2018, throughout Trump’s first time period in workplace, Washington withdrew from the 2015 settlement and reinstated biting sanctions on Tehran.
Iran continued to stick to the settlement for a 12 months after Trump’s withdrawal however later started rolling again its compliance.
Iran has persistently denied that it’s searching for nuclear weapons.
Baqaei reiterated that Iran will quickly host United Nations nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi however famous that the main points of his journey have been nonetheless “to be selected.”
Grossi, head of the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA), final visited Iran in November the place he held talks with high officers, together with President Masoud Pezeshkian.
In its newest quarterly report in February, the IAEA stated Iran had an estimated 274.8 kilograms (605 kilos) of uranium enriched to as much as 60 %, near the 90 % degree wanted to make nuclear weapons.
