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2025-04-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Iran: Talks with US to stay ‘indirect,’ will only address nuclear issues and sanctions
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One wonders how rapidly Iran’s scientists are sprinting toward the finish line of their nuclear bombs to fit on the missiles they’ve been working on in parallel — all under the cover of discussions they intend to drag out as long as President Trump is willing. Nothing so silly as the shape of the table, but if they are still discussing what subjects they will discuss… [IsraelTimes] Islamic Republic says Oman to continue mediating, with future location not yet finalized; Trump says talks ‘going okay’ but ‘nothing matters until you get it done’
The Iranian foreign ministry said Sunday that talks with the United States slated for next weekend will remain “indirect,” with Omani mediation, and focused solely on the nuclear issue and lifting of sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff held brief talks on Saturday in Muscat — after a two-hour-plus, Omani-mediated session, with the US and Iran delegations in separate rooms –marking the highest-level Iran-US nuclear negotiations since the collapse of a 2015 accord.
Another round of talks will be held on Saturday, April 19, with the location yet to be finalized.
“Negotiations will continue to be indirect. Oman will remain the mediator, but we are discussing the location of future negotiations,” Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in an interview with state TV.
He said the talks would only focus on “the nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions” and that Iran “will not have any talks with the American side on any other issue.”
Analysts had said the US would push to include on the agenda discussions over Iran’s ballistic missile program along with Tehran’s support for the “axis of resistance” — a network of terrorist groups opposed to Israel.
Tehran has, however, maintained it will talk only about its nuclear program.
Donald Trump in 2018 pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers during his first term as US president.
And rightfully so. Under cover of that stupid agreement that President Obama pretended really hard was not a diplomatic treaty requiring Senate advice and consent, Iran built several new sites and populated them with many more centrifuges for concentrating uranium even faster than originally intended, to the point that they they were already getting close to breakthrough by the time President Trump threw off the treaty’s protections. He reimposed sweeping economic sanctions against Iran, which continued to adhere to the agreement for a year after Washington’s pullout
…that’s “adhere”, since at sites away from IAEA supervision they were accelerating accumulating nucleqr bomb materials and continuing work on the bomb mechanisms forbidden altogether by the “agreement” they’d signed off on agreeing to. As was revealed by the warehouse of materials Mossad made off with and PM Netanyahu shared with the UN General Assembly…. but later began rolling back its own commitments.
Asked about the talks, Trump told journalists aboard Air Force One on Saturday: “I think they’re going OK. Nothing matters until you get it done.”
…whether done with a signed, enforceable agreement or Israeli and American bombs. Iran, which avowedly seeks Israel’s destruction, has consistently denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.
Not taqqiya, but one of the other categories of required Moslem lies to protect the Ummah from kaffir attacks. However, it has been enriching uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, has obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities, and its officials have increasingly warned that they could pursue the bomb.
Where could means are in the process of… Saturday’s rare negotiations came weeks after Trump sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging nuclear talks while warning of possible military action if Iran refuses.
American dawa does not require converting to our religion, just surrender. The US president said earlier this week that Israel would participate in such a strike, if not lead it.
Iran and the US separately described Saturday’s discussions as “constructive.”
Iran said Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi acted as an intermediary in the indirect talks.
The negotiators, Araghchi and Witkoff, spoke directly for “a few minutes” after the talks, Tehran’s foreign ministry said.
The process took place in a “friendly atmosphere,” Oman’s Albusaidi said.
Several Iranian websites that track the unofficial exchange rate reported Sunday a strengthening of the Iranian rial to around 850,000 to the US dollar, down from more than one million in recent days.
‘TURNING POINT’
Iran is reeling from Israel’s pummeling of its two proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, and is seeking relief from wide-ranging sanctions hobbling its economy. Israel went to war against Hamas after the Gaza-ruling terror group invaded Israel on October 7, 2023
…the attack having been funded, trained, and planned by Iran… and slaughtered 1,200 people in southern Israel, most of them civilians, and abducted 251 hostages, where 59 are still held.
…more than half having become corpses along the way… Hezbollah began attacking northern Israel the next day,
…also planned, trained, and funded by Iran… drawing an escalating Israeli response, during which much of Hezbollah’s leadership was killed and its military capacity greatly degraded.
Tehran has agreed to the meetings despite balking at Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign of ramping up sanctions and repeated military threats.
Mere threats or solid promises? I think the latter. Trump and Witkoff both had described the talks as being “direct” in the days before the meeting..
“I think our position begins with dismantlement of your program. That is our position today,” Witkoff told The Wall Street Journal before his trip. “That doesn’t mean, by the way, that at the margin we’re not going to find other ways to find compromise between the two countries.”
He added: “Where our red line will be, there can’t be weaponization of your nuclear capability.”
That red line indicated a degree of flexibility in the Trump administration’s position and a potential break with Israel, whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted that he will only accept the full dismantlement of Iran’s nuclear facilities.
On Sunday, Iranian media largely welcomed the rare talks as a “decisive turning point” in relations between the longtime foes.
Iran’s conservative Javan daily praised the US for “not seeking to expand the negotiations to non-nuclear issues.”
The government-sponsored newspaper, Iran, described the discussions as “constructive and respectful,” quoting Araghchi.
Meanwhile, the reformist Shargh newspaper said it was a “decisive turning point” in Iran-US relations.
The hardline Kayhan newspaper, which was largely skeptical in the days leading up to the talks, lamented that Iran does not have a “plan B” while there was “no clear prospect for an agreement with Donald Trump.”
It, however, lauded what it said was the fact that the American side did not bring up “the dismantling of nuclear facilities” and “the possibility of a military attack” during the discussions.
Tehran and Washington have had no diplomatic relations since shortly after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed shah and Iran’s subsequent seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran and its holding of 52 American diplomats as hostages. 
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