US and Iran to Hold Nuclear Talks
US President Donald Trump has announced that talks between Iran and the United States on Tehran's nuclear programme will take place in Oman on 12 April, and are expected to be led by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff.
The Gaze reports about it referring to CNN and Reuters.
‘I hope these talks are successful... If the talks with Iran are not successful, I think Iran will be in great danger,’ Trump said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi said on Monday that the United States and Iran would hold ‘indirect high-level talks’ in Oman on 12 April. ‘This is as much an opportunity as a test. The ball is in America's court,’ he said.
The last direct high-level talks between the US and Iran took place in 2015, when then US Secretary of State John Kerry and then Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif were working to finalise a nuclear deal.
On 5 April, Iran rejected the possibility of direct talks with the United States on Iran's nuclear programme as ‘meaningless’.
In early March, Trump said that he had sent a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with a proposal on Iran's nuclear programme. According to Axios sources, Trump's letter to Khamenei was ‘tough’ and contained not only a proposal to negotiate a new nuclear deal, but also the consequences if Tehran rejected it.
Trump also said that Iran would face unprecedented bombings if it did not conclude a deal with the United States on the development of nuclear weapons.