Iran And the United States will hold talks in Oman’s sultanate on Saturday to try to relaunch negotiations on the fast nuclear program of Tehran.
President Donald Trump insists that they will be direct negotiations. However, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi says He will speak indirectly by a mediator to us the envoy of the Middle East Steve Witkoff.
Whatever the format, talks represent an important step in rich relations between the two nations on the Iranian program, which enriches uranium near armed quality levels.
Here is a calendar of tensions between the two countries on the Iranian atomic program.
Early
1967 – Iran takes possession of its Tehran research reactor as part of the American program “Atoms for Peace”.
1979 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deadly sick, flee Iran while popular demonstrations against him increase. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and the Islamic Revolution is sweeping him to power. Students enter the United States Embassy in Tehran, starting the 444-day hostage crisis. The Iranian nuclear program is falling under international pressure.
August 2002 – Western intelligence services and an Iranian opposition group reveal that the secret of Iran Natanz Natanz Nuclear Inrichment Facility.
June 2003 – Great Britain, France and Germany engage Iran in nuclear negotiations.
October 2003 – Iran suspends the enrichment of uranium.
February 2006 – Iran announces that it will restart the enrichment of uranium after the election of the president of the MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD hard line. Great Britain, France and Germany are emerging from the negotiations in a standstill.
June 2009 – The disputed presidential election of Iran sees Ahmadinejad re -elected despite allegations of fraud, triggering demonstrations of the Green Movement and a violent repression of the government.
October 2009 – Under President Barack Obama, the United States and Iran open a large channel for messages in the Sultanate of Oman.
July 2012 – American and Iranian officials hold secret talks in front of Oman.
July 14, 2015 – The global powers and Iran announce a long -term complete nuclear agreement which limits the enrichment of uranium by Tehran in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
Nuclear agreement collapses
May 2018 – Trump unilaterally removes the United States from the nuclear agreement, calling it “worse agreement of all time”. He says he will get better conditions in new negotiations to stop the development of Iranian missiles and support for regional militias. These talks do not occur during his first mandate.
May 8, 2019 – Iran announces that it will start to withdraw from the agreement. A series of regional attacks on land and in sea blamed in Tehran follow.
January 3, 2020 – A strike of American drones in Baghdad kills General Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Tehran’s Proxy Wars in the Middle East.
January 8, 2020 – In retaliation for the murder of Soleimani, Iran launches a missile dam in military bases in Iraq which house thousands of American and Iraqi troops. More than 100 American soldiers are undergoing traumatic brain lesions. While Iran was based for a counterattack, the revolution goalkeeper draws a Ukrainian passenger plane shortly after takeoff from Tehran International Airport, which confused him with an American cruise missile. The 176 people on board are killed.
July 2020 – A mysterious explosion tears a centrifuge production plant at Iran Natanz Nuclear Enrichment Facility. Iran accuses the attack on Atcenea Israel.
April 6, 2021 – Iran and the United States under President Joe Biden begin indirect negotiations in Vienna on how to restore the nuclear agreement. These talks, and others between Tehran and the European nations, do not reach any agreement.
April 11, 2021 – A second attack in one year targets the Natanz nuclear site of Iran, again caused by Israel.
April 16, 2021 – Iran begins to enrich uranium up to 60% – its highest purity of all time and a technical step compared to the levels of weapons of 90%.
February 24, 2022 – Russia is launching its large -scale invasion of Ukraine. Moscow will eventually rely on Iranian drones that carry bombs in the conflict, as well as on the missiles.
July 17, 2022 – An advisor to the supreme chief of Iran, Kamal Kharrazi, says that Iran is technically capable of making a nuclear bomb, but has not decided to build it. His remarks will be repeated by others in the coming years as tensions grow.
Rage of wars of the Middle East
October 7, 2023 – Hamas activists from the Strip Storm in Gaza in Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 others hostage. It starts the most intense war of all time between Israel and Hamas. Iran, which armed Hamas, offers support to activists. Regional tensions increase.
November 19, 2023 – The Houthis rebels of Yemen, long supported by Iran, seized the chief of the galaxy of the ship, starting a one -month -old attack campaign on the expedition in the corridor of the Red Sea that the American Navy described as the most intense fight he saw since the Second World War. Attacks reflect tactics earlier used by Iran.
April 14, 2024 – Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack against Israel, drawing more than 300 missiles and attack drones. Israel, working with an international coalition led by the United States, intercepts a large part of incoming fires.
April 19, 2024 – An alleged Israeli strike strikes a air defense system by an airport in Isfahan, Iran.
July 31, 2024 – Ismail Haniyeh, a leader of Hamas, is apparently murdered by Israel during a visit to Tehran after the inauguration of Reforming President Masoud Pezeshkian.
September 27, 2024 – Israeli air strikes kill the head of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah.
October 1, 2024 – Iran launched its second direct attack on Israel, although a coalition led by the United States and Israel, most of the missiles.
October 16, 2024 – Israel kills the head of Hamas Yahya Sinwar in the Gaza Strip.
October 26, 2024 – Israel openly attacks Iran for the first time, hitting air defense systems and sites associated with its missile program.
Trump returns – and reaches out
January 20, 2025 – Trump is inaugurated for his second term as president.
February 7, 2025 – Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, says that the discussions proposed with the United States are “not intelligent, wise or honorable”.
March 7, 2025 – Trump says he sent a letter to Khamenei in search of a new nuclear agreement with Tehran.
March 15, 2025 – Trump launches intense air strikes targeting the Houthi rebels in Yemen, the last members of the self -proclaimed “resistance axis” of Iran capable of daily attacks.
April 7, 2025 – Trump announces that the United States and Iran will hold direct talks in Oman. Iran says they will be indirect talks, but confirms the meeting.
April 12, 2025 – First series of talks between Iran and the United States planned in Oman.
