This was announced on Thursday evening, February 26, by representatives of Oman, acting as an intermediary between the delegations from Washington and Tehran.
"We ended the day after significant progress in the negotiations between the United States and Iran," said Oman's Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi. He also added that next week there will be a new stage of negotiations "at the technical level" in Vienna.
The United States delegation included Donald Trump's special envoy Stephen Witkoff and the son-in-law of the American president Jared Kushner. Iran was represented at the meeting by the country's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
According to Axios, the parties negotiated during two sessions in the morning and evening of February 26. According to the newspaper, after the morning meeting, the American delegation was "disappointed," but Witkoff and Kushner rated the evening meeting as "positive."
Iran refuses to dismantle nuclear facilities
According to the Qatari Al Jazeera television company, during the morning meeting, Iran presented its draft nuclear deal with the United States. Sources of the publication say that Tehran is ready to stop uranium enrichment only temporarily and refuses to dismantle nuclear facilities. The Iranian authorities are ready to reduce uranium reserves to a low level and allow representatives of the IAEA to visit nuclear facilities.
A CNN reporter, citing sources close to the Iranian delegation, said that Iran is ready to make a deal with the United States only if all American sanctions and UN Security Council resolutions are lifted. Earlier, a similar statement was made by the country's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi. dw.com.
