In response to an offer that Iran finds unacceptable, Iran said it will soon submit a counter-proposal for a nuclear agreement to the United States, but the US president stated that discussions will continue. Regarding whether the country would be permitted to continue enriching uranium, the US president made it apparent that the two sides were still at differences.
Iran was already working on a counter-response to the U.S. proposal. Esmaeil Baghaei from Tehran’s foreign ministry stated that the schedule of a sixth round of negotiations was not specified. A senior Iranian official and a U.S. official indicated Thursday was improbable, despite Trump’s announcement that the next round of negotiations will take place on that day.
Baghaei responded to Trump’s remarks by saying that current discussions indicate that the next round of indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran will take place in Muscat next Sunday.
The U.S. official said that U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi would meet in Oslo or Oman on Friday or Sunday to negotiate.
“We do not accept the U.S. proposition.”
It was not the outcome of earlier rounds of discussions. Once everything is finalised, we will send our own proposal to the other party through Oman. Baghaei declared.
“It is essential to ensure that Iran benefits economically before sanctions are lifted and that its banking and trade relations with other countries are restored nto ormal.”
According to earlier reports, Tehran was preparing a rebuttal to the U.S. plan. The U.S. offer, according to an Iranian ambassador, did not address disagreements over uranium enrichment on Iranian land, the export of Iran’s whole supply of highly enriched uranium, or trustworthy measures to remove U.S. sanctions.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the U.S. scheme last week, voicing it was against Tehran’s stakes. He also promised to keep enriching Iranian soil, which Western nations see as a possible route to nuclear weapons development. Iran claims that the only goals of its nuclear program are benign ones.
Trump claimed that his phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday focused mostly on Iran. Trump reimposed sanctions that have severely damaged Iran’s economy and abandoned a 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and six states during his first term in 2018. In response, Iran increased enrichment well beyond the parameters of that agreement.
Tehran claims that the West has ignored Israel’s. Israel has neither acknowledged nor denied possessing nuclear weapons. Iran has already pledged to provide key Israeli data, which Baghaei said would show that those who are continuously criticising Iran’s peaceful nuclear program are actively trying to bolster Israel’s military nuclear program.
