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Mr. Araghchi said the negotiations would be resumed next Saturday, whereby Oman will continue to convey the talks to which Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special officer and team of experts. While the US negotiators agreed that the talks would continue, according to a high -ranking American official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations, there was no time.

“The atmosphere of the negotiations was very serious and productive,” he said. “We pulled away from some of the bigger problems, but that doesn't mean that we have all solved our differences.”

“We have differences of opinion on big and small issues,” he added, “but there will be discussions in the capitals this week to reduce our differences.”

The high -ranking American official said that the next round of talks would be in Europe, with Oman. The official said the talks lasted four hours and called them productively.

Another person trusted with the negotiations said that the next round would most likely take place in the next two weeks, but that the US team needed some time to take into account Iranians' information and suggestions. The US team wants to move the talks closer to a more comfortable place to the United States, the person said.

Both the USA and the Iranian teams presented a framework for the negotiations on Saturday and discussed a number of topics, although nothing was agreed, the person added.

“I think we'll do a deal with Iran. Nobody else could do that,” said Mr. Trump in an interview published on Friday with Time Magazine. In 2018, Mr. Trump gave up an earlier nuclear agreement with Iran in his first term and said it was an incorrect agreement.

The conversations have the potential to redesign regional and global security by reducing the likelihood of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities supported in the USA and preventing Iran from producing a nuclear weapon. A deal could also change the economic and political landscape of Iranian to make American sanctions easier and open the country to foreign investors.

What happened on Saturday?

Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump's envoy in the Middle East; Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian Foreign Minister; And teams of technical experts on both sides met in the Golfsultanate Oman, which conveys the talks. The Iranian state media reported that the talks started around noon.

This round included the “expert talks” of nuts and bolts, which brought together nuclear and finance teams from both sides in order to pass technical details such as monitoring the nuclear institutions of the Iranian nuclear and what would happen with its supplies with high-enriched uraniumPresent Together with loosening sanctions.

Mr. Trump himself has defined the goal of negotiations as preventing Iran to maintain nuclear weapons. However, officials of his administration sent mixed messages about what this means.

This closer goal of preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon would not consider with others, the Israel with the Iranian advanced rocket program, would not take into account the support of proxy militias in the Middle East and its hostility to Israel.

An Iranian spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmail Baghai, said on Saturday that the question of defense and rocket skills in the country “has not been raised in indirect negotiations with the United States.”

What is at stake?

A new nuclear agreement could delay or avert a broader conflict between Iran and Israel and the United States. Israel and Iran have traded direct attacks on October 7, 2023 since the beginning of the war war in Gaza.

The New York Times reported last week that Israel had planned to attack the Iranian nuclear sites next month, but the Israelis were won by Mr. Trump, who instead wanted to negotiate an agreement with Tehran.

Mr. Trump said in his time interview that he had not stopped Israel's attack.

“But I didn't make it comfortable because I think we can do a deal without the attack. I hope we can,” he said. “It is possible that we have to attack because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.”

Iran enriched the uranium to around 60 percent purity, shortly before the level, which is required to generate a weapon. There has been enough to build several bombs when it opts for an arms for arms for the Nuclear Watchdog of the UN, the international nuclear energy agency.

Iran says that its nuclear program serves peaceful purposes, and the IAEO said that it has not found any signs of a weapon.

If his nuclear facilities are attacked, Iran has declared that it would be violent and consider to leave the UN contract about the non-distribution of nuclear weapons.

Iran's economy and the future of its 90 million people are also at stake.

Years of sanctions have caused chronic inflation – intensified by economic mismanagement and corruption. Now many Iranians say that they feel trapped in a downward spiral and hope that a US Iran deal would help.

What happened in previous conversations?

The first round of the nuclear discussions was in Oman two weeks ago, followed by a second round in Rome last weekend.

Both sides said that the negotiations were constructive and they moved in the right direction.

The Iranian officials said they were ready to reduce the enrichment levels given in the 2015 nuclear agreement in 2015 – 3.67 percent – to produce the level that is required to produce fuel for nuclear power plants.

What are the embroidery points?

Mr. Trump has split the question of whether it should allow Iran to further enrich the uranium.

Mr. Witkoff has described a possible agreement that would enable Iran to enrich uranium at the low levels that are necessary to produce fuel for energy and surveillance.

In a recently carried out podcast interview, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio suggested that Iran could have a civil nuclear program without enriching uranium in Germany – by importing enriched uranium, as other countries do.

And Michael Waltz, the national security advisor, said the United States searched for a complete breakdown of the Iranian nuclear program, a position that Iran classified as a non -autumn.

Iran invited the United States to invest in its nuclear program and to build 19 other core reactors as an additional measure of security, said Araghchi, the Foreign Minister.

“The opportunity that our economy can be open to US companies,” said Araghchi in a speech that he shared on social media. “This includes companies that can help us create clean electricity from non-hydrocarbon sources.”

Agreement how much enriched uranium iran can have and on which level he criticizes Mr. Trump that he only reproduces the key elements of the nuclear agreement of the Obama era, which Mr. Trump initiated as “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions in which the United States has entered”.

Analysts say that some possible measures to improve the deal from Obama era The stricter monitoring of the nuclear activities of Iranian activities, joint venture to lead the nuclear institutions and the permanent implementation of Iran.

How did we get here?

The two sides came into the negotiations with deep distrust.

The previous deal between Iran and the United States and other world powers, which were signed during the Obama government, was referred to as a common comprehensive action plan.

Measures were taken to prevent Iran from being through the weapon

European companies withdrew from Iran and the banks stopped working with Iran and feared the US sanctions.

About a year after Mr. Trump completed the nuclear deal with Iran in 2018, Iran, without seeing financial benefits, turned away from his obligations and increased his level of uranium enrichment and gradually reached 60 percent.

What's next?

So far, there seems to be a political will on both sides to achieve a new deal, and the discussions are to be continued.

The highest leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had excluded negotiations with Mr. Trump in the past, approved the talks and said that the negotiation team had his support.

But a deal is not necessarily around the corner.

The conversations were still able to collapse at the technical level, which was the most difficult part of the previous negotiations.

It is also possible that an interim deal can be reached to freeze uranium enrichment of the uranium while a permanent deal is switched off.

Lara Jakes And David E. Sanger Reported reports.