Iran said that a new round of nuclear conversations with the United States for Sunday is planned, after Washington presented a proposal for an agreement in the midst of a confrontation on uranium enrichment.
The enemies have long held five rounds of conversations since April, the highest level contact since President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from a 2015 nuclear agreement during his first term.
“The next round of indirect conversations of Iran-United States is planning for next Sunday in Muscat,” the spokesman of the Iran Foreign Ministry, Esmaeil Baqaei, in a statement on Tuesday, said on Tuesday.
Trump had previously said that the meeting was expected with Iran on Thursday, but Baqaei said that Iran's Foreign Minister and Chief Negoter Abbas Araghchi would attend the Norway Oslo forum, a meeting of conflict mediators.
The sixth round of conversations would arrive two weeks after Iran has received an US proposal for a nuclear agreement that Araghchi described as it contained “ambiguities.”
Iran said that the US proposal did not include “elements” that reflect the previous negotiations, including the lifting of the sanctions, a key demand of Tehran, which has been staggering under its weight for years.
Tehran said he would present a counterproposal “reasonable, logical and balanced” for the United States through the mediator Oman.
On Monday, Trump said the next conversations between the United States and Iran could clarify whether it is possible to avoid a nuclear agreement to avoid military action.
Iran and the United States have been locked in a diplomatic confrontation about the enrichment of Uranium of Iran, with Tehran defending it as a “non -negotiable” right and Washington describes it as a “red line.”
National interests
Currently, I was enriched the uranium at 60%, well above the limit of 3.67% established in the 2015 agreement and closed, although still below the 90% necessary for a nuclear eye.
Western countries, including the United States, have long accused Iran of trying to acquire atomic weapons, while Tehran insisted that its nuclear program was for peaceful purposes.
On Tuesday, Iran's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, dismissed the statements that there was a “dead point” in conversations with the United States.
“Any negotiation with an international dimension comes with its own sensibilities and requires great patience to reach a result,” Irna's official agency told the news agency.
“What matters to us is that we can safeguard the national interests of the country through these conversations, and that is how we proceed,” he added.
He said that the sixth round will be the first one in which the parties express their views on the exchanged written materials, noting that Tehran will return to its position on the enrichment capacity, as it has done publicly in the past.
On Monday, the United Nations Nuclear Control Agency began a meeting of the Board of Governors in Vienna that would last until Friday to discuss Iran's nuclear activities, among other issues.
The meeting occurred after the International Atomic Energy Agency published a report that criticizes the “less satisfactory” cooperation of Tehran, particularly in the explanation of previous cases of nuclear material found in undeclared sites.
Iran has criticized the OIEA report as unbalanced, saying that it depended on “counterfeit documents” provided by its Israel enemy arc.
On Tuesday, Araghchi reiterated the criticisms of a plan by the European powers and the United States to adopt a resolution at the Oiea meeting, accusing Tehran of breach with their nuclear obligations.
“Any poorly considered and destructive decision in the Board of Governors against Iran will meet an appropriate response,” he said during a phone call with Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iweaya.
Iran has said that it would reduce cooperation with the OIEA if the resolution was approved.
