Iran said in the United States in talks last week that it was ready to accept certain limits to its enrichment in uranium, but that waterproof guarantees needed the guarantees of water Donald Trump would not abandon a nuclear pact, a senior Iranian official said on Friday.
Iran and the United States should organize a second series of talks on Saturday in Rome, a week after a first series of negotiations in Oman that the two parties described as positive.
Trump, who has restored a “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran since February, abandoned a 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and six world powers in 2018 during his first mandate and reprinted paralyzing sanctions against Iran.
In the years that followed, Tehran has regularly exceeded the limits of the 2015 Agreement on its nuclear program, designed to make the development of an atomic bomb.
Former American president Joe Biden, whose administration tried without success to restore the 2015 Pact, was unable to meet the demand for a guarantee teheran that no future administration of the United States would make it.
Tehran approached the talks with distrust, skeptical that they could give an agreement and be wary of Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran if he does not stop his acceleration program of enrichment of uranium, which, according to Iran, is peaceful.
While Tehran and Washington said they were put in place in diplomacy, they remain distant on a dispute that has scolded for more than two decades.
Red lines
The red lines of Tehran “mandated by the supreme chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei” could not be compromised in the talks, said the manager at Reuters, describing the negotiation position of Iran under the cover of anonymity.
He said these red lines meant that Iran would never accept to dismantle its centrifugal to enrich uranium, completely stop enrichment or reduce the amount of enriched uranium that it stores at a lower level the level it agreed in the 2015 agreement that Trump abandoned.
He would not negotiate on his missile program, which Tehran considers outside the scope of any nuclear agreement.
“Iran has understood in indirect talks to Oman that Washington does not want Iran to stop all nuclear activities, and this can be common ground for Iran and the United States to start a fair negotiation,” said the source.
Iran said that Friday reaching an agreement with the United States was possible if it “demonstrates a severity of intention and do not make unrealistic requests”.
On Tuesday, American negotiator Steve Witkoff, in a position on X, said that Iran should “stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment” to conclude an agreement with Washington.
Tehran said he was ready to work with the United Nations nuclear agency, which he considers “the only acceptable body in this process”, to ensure that his nuclear work is peaceful, according to the source.
The source said that Araqchi had told Americans that in exchange for this cooperation, Washington should quickly raise sanctions against Iranian oil and financial sectors.
