Iran and the US will today have a fifth round of talks on Tehran’s nuclear program with Oman’s mediation, while negotiations seem to aim at the issue of uranium enrichment by the Islamic Republic.

Tehran and Washington, hostile countries from the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which overthrew the pro -Western monarchy in Iran, began on April 12 on the thorny issue of the Iranian nuclear program.

THE fifth Negotiations start today at 13:00 Italian time (14:00 Greek time), according to the official Iranian IRNA news agency.

They are the most high -ranking negotiations made between the two sides after unilateral US withdrawal in 2018 by the international agreement on the Iranian nuclear program that had been concluded three years earlier in Vienna.

US President Donald Trump, who had made this decision during his first term in the White House (2017-2021), again imposed heavy US sanctions on Iran in the context of so-called political exercise ‘Maximum pressure»In Islamic Republic.

It is now seeking to negotiate a new agreement with Tehran, which hopes to lift sanctions that are suffocating in its economy.

Returning the two countries to the negotiating table becomes as well as the two publicly display their disagreement On the sensitive issue of uranium enrichment.

American envoy to the Middle East Steve Whitkovwho leads the talks on the Washington side, he ruled Sunday that the US ‘They cannot even allow 1% of enrichment capacity’ Heaven in Iran.

“Iran cannot be able to enrich it as it would make it potentially nuclear power.”US Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued on Wednesday.

Still exist ‘fundamental disagreements » With the US, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Arakzi, who is leading Iran’s negotiations, noted yesterday.

If the US prevents Iran from enriching uranium “there will be no agreement,” the head of Iranian diplomacy also warned.

Tehran, which defends its right to nuclear energy for non -military purposes, considers this claim contrary to the provisions of the Nuclear Weapons Treaty (TNP), a part of which is Iran.

“Iran’s sovereignty is a red line and Iran will in no way deny the right to enrich uranium”Iranian political analyst Mohammad Marandi told AFP.

The Western countries, first in the US, and Israel, a sworn enemy of Iran, considered by experts the only nuclear power in the Middle East, suspect that Iran wants to acquire a nuclear weapon. Tehran denies that she has such aspirations.

In the Iran nuclear sector, more than 17,000 people employ more than 17,000 people, especially in the energy and medical industry, according to the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (Oiea) Behruz Camalvadi.

“The Netherlands, Belgium, South Korea, Brazil and Japan enrich (uranium) without nuclear weapons,” Camalvadi underlined in early May.

Yesterday, Thursday, the US President Donald Trump talked about Iran with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuaccording to White House spokesman Caroline Levit.

President Trump thinks negotiations with Tehran ‘Go in the right direction’his representative added, referring to these conversations, which is skeptical if not with pure hostility by the Israeli leader.

According to the International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA), the Iran is currently enriching heaven at 60%, which is far exceeding the 3.67% threshold allowed by the 2015 agreement, but below 90% necessary for military use.

Tehran has been removed from the commitments that had taken over 2015 Under the agreement on its nuclear program in retaliation for the US withdrawal from it.