A new American -Iranian conversations tour about the nuclear program in Rome

On Saturday, the United States and Iran will resume talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, a week after a first round that the two sides described as “constructive”.
The Iranian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araqji, arrived in Rome to participate in this second round of indirect talks, according to scenes broadcast by Iranian official television and appeared in which Araqji appeared from an official plane at night.
The television indicated that the talks will start at 10:30 Roma time (8:30 GMT).
Araqji holds these talks with the American delegate to the Middle East Steve Wittouf by the Sultanate of Oman, after the first round in Muscat.
It is the second meeting at this level between the two countries since US President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 from the historic nuclear agreement with Iran, which stipulated the ease of international sanctions on Iran in exchange for imposing restrictions on its nuclear program.
During his first presidential term, Trump adopted a “maximum pressure” policy towards Iran, one of its most prominent stations was his withdrawal from the agreement concluded in 2015 and the re -imposition of sanctions on Tehran, which responded to a gradual retreat from its basic obligations under the agreement.
Trump revealed in the beginning of March that he sent a message to Tehran, which would offer negotiations, but he waved military action against it in the event of an agreement.
“I am not in a hurry,” Trump said to resort to the military option, adding, “I think Iran wants to dialogue,” Trump said on Thursday.
On the eve of these talks, Araqji expressed “serious doubts about the intentions and motives of the American side”, but he stressed “we will participate in tomorrow’s negotiations (Saturday) in any case.”
“We realize that the road is not without obstacles” before reaching an agreement.
Western countries advanced by the United States, in addition to the occupying state, suspect the regional enemy of Tehran, that the latter seeks to provide nuclear weapons.
For its part, Tehran denies these accusations and confirms that its nuclear program is designed for civil purposes.
In an interview published on Wednesday, the French newspaper Le Monde, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said that Iran is “not far” from having a nuclear bomb.
Iran is currently enriching uranium by up to 60 percent, which is much higher than 3.67 percent stipulated in the agreement, but it is still less than the 90 percent threshold required for military use.
On Friday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged European countries to take an “important decision” on whether to activate the “trigger mechanism” that would automatically re -impose international sanctions on Iran against the background of not complying with the nuclear agreement.