Both the Iranian as well as the Americans showed restrained optimism after new indirect conversations in Rome For its nuclear power program Tehranwith the parties agreeing to meet again in a week.

“We have made a lot of progress in direct and indirect conversations,” a US official assured, not named in a written statement.

He confirmed that the two sides will have a new “next week” meeting.

“Negotiations are moving forward,” the head of Iranian diplomacy said on his part Abbas Aragziafter the second meeting with the mediation of Oman’s Sultanate. “It was a good meeting,” he assured.

The meeting in Rome took place a week after the first talks in Oman between the two countries, sworn enemies after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, without diplomatic relations since 1980.

“We will meet again next Saturday in Oman,” Araci told Iranian state television, stating that “technical talks at the level of experts” will begin on Wednesday.

According to Oman’s diplomacy, the two sides seek to close a “fair, constant and binding” agreement that will guarantee that Iran “will have no nuclear weapons” nor will there be “sanctions”.

“Talks are getting momentum, and even the unlikely it is now possible,” Oman’s Foreign Minister, Badr Albusidi, found via X.

The conversations that Araki and the American Special Envoy Direct Steve Whitkovthey lasted for four hours yesterday.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Emille Bayai said the two delegations were “in separate halls” at the residence of Oman’s ambassador to Rome and that the head of the Sultanate of the Gulf was the intermediary.

Iranian state television, as well as the Tasnim news agency, has spoken of a “constructive atmosphere”.

It was the second meeting of this level following the US unilateral departure in 2018, during Donald Trump’s first term in the presidency, by the international agreement providing for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities and the removal of part of international sanctions – officially.

After returning to the White House on January 20, Donald Trump began to re -implement his “maximum pressure” policy in Iran.

In March he demanded that Iran to negotiate a new agreement, threatening to order the country to be bombarded in the event of diplomacy failure.

Trump said, however, on Thursday that he is “in no hurry” to use the military option: “I think Iran wants to discuss,” he explained.

On the eve of yesterday’s second round of talks in Rome, Mr Arakzi did not hide his “serious doubts” about Washington’s intentions.

“We are aware of the fact that the road” to the agreement will not necessarily be “smooth,” Iranian diplomatic spokesman Bayai said yesterday.

Western governments and Israel – the Jewish state, also an sworn enemy of Iran, is considered by experts the only power with nuclear weapons in the Middle East – have for years been saying that the Islamic Republic is intended to acquire a nuclear arsenal. Tehran denies the category and defends the country’s sovereign right to have a nuclear program for political purposes, in particular for energy production.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He reiterated yesterday, once again, that he was “determined to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons”, adding that he did not “abandon this purpose” and that “he will not even retreat.”

In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde and published on Wednesday, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, stressed that Iran is not “far” from acquiring a nuclear arsenal.

In retaliation for the US withdrawal from the 2015 agreement and the reinstatement of US sanctions, Iran has gradually began to take its distances from the COSD and to define its obligations under the text.

It thus multiplied the number and performance of its centrifugal devices, in other words of machinery used to enrich uranium to produce more, higher and faster, in its facilities in Natanz and Fordo (centrally). It now enriches celestial to 60%, well above the 3.67% threshold provided by the agreement, but still well below the 90% level required for the construction of nuclear weapons, according to the IAEA.

Iran insists that talks with the US are limited to its nuclear program and sanctions and considers the idea of ​​a complete interruption of its activities in the field of nuclear energy.

No other issues beyond nuclear energy was posed by the US yesterday, Arakzi said.

Some media make the assumption that the issue of Iran’s ballistic missile development program will also be put on the table as well as Tehran’s support for armed movements hostile to Israel, such as Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezboli, Hezboli.

Arakchi warned the United States against “irrational and unrealistic demands” on Friday, after Witten demanded that the Islamic Republic of the Islamic Nuclear Program be completely terminated.

The guards of the revolution, a select body of the Iranian Armed Forces with a strong ideological influence, exclude from their part any debate on the country’s military potential and defense, including the Iranian ballistic missile development program, which is worried.