Iran responded to a letter sent by US President Donald Trump and called Tehran in talks on her nuclear program, Iranian diplomacy announced today at the official Iranian IRNA news agency.

“This official answer includes a letter in which our position on the existing situation and Mr Trump’s letter is fully explained to the other side,” Foreign Minister Abbas Arakzi underlined, adding that the letter was sent to the Sultanate of Oman, who generally served as the United States.

Arakzi did not clarify the character of Iran’s response, or when the letter was sent.

Donald Trump, who withdrew his country from the international agreement with Iran in 2018 during his first term, is now open to the dialogue with Tehran for supervising his nuclear activities.

The US president therefore revealed in early March that he wrote a letter on this issue to Iranian leaders.

Donald Trump has also reinforced his policy of “maximum pressure” at the expense of Iran, with additional sanctions and the threat of military action in the event of the conversations.

“Our policy remains not to negotiate immediately (with the United States) under the ‘maximum pressure’ and threats of military action, but indirect negotiations, as they have existed in the past, can continue,” Abbas Aragi said.

Although they do not maintain diplomatic relations, Tehran and Washington indirectly talk to Switzerland’s embassy in the Iranian capital, which represents US interests in Iran.

Oman’s Sultanate has also played a role of mediator in the past, as well as Qatar to a lesser extent. Donald Trump’s letter served in Iran via the United Arab Emirates.

In 2015, Iran concluded an agreement with the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (China, Russia, the United States, France and Britain) and Germany to oversee its nuclear activities.

Western countries have been suspecting Tehran for decades that it wants to acquire a nuclear weapon. Iran rejects these allegations and states that its program concerns exclusively non -military purposes, namely energy.

This agreement offered Iran a relaxation of international sanctions in exchange for a restriction on its nuclear ambitions. Iran kept its commitments, according to the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA /IAEA).

But in 2018, Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the deal and reinstated US sanctions.

This decision was mainly motivated by the absence of measures against Iran’s ballistic program, which Washington considers to be a threat.