U.S. and Iran still in Technical Discussions

US and Iran Conclude 3rd Round of Nuclear Talks, Schedule 4th

Experts from the United States and Iran held their first technical discussions about the future of Iran’s nuclear program.

The discussions in the Omani capital of Muscat follow two high-profile meetings between U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the preceding weeks.

Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who mediated the two previous rounds of talks in Muscat and Rome, said that Iran and the United States “identified a shared aspiration to reach agreement based on mutual respect and enduring commitments.”

President Donald Trump has made preventing Tehran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon a priority of his foreign policy platform, and his administration has expressed a willingness to allow Tehran to maintain its nuclear power facilities provided it ceases enriching uranium and does not seek a nuclear weapon.

Iran previously maintained that its nuclear program was for peaceful purposes only, but in recent years began to suggest that it could obtain a nuclear weapon but had not yet decided to do so.

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