Tehran’s Foreign Minister will travel to Moscow this week to consult the USA about the nuclear talks of Iran, Iran and Russia have announced.
Abbas Araghchi will visit the Iranian allies later this week, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday. Moscow said the announcement of the trip, in which Araghchi will meet his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, as details about a second row of talks between Iran and the United States to pursue a first meeting over the weekend in Oman.
Araghchi’s visit to Russia was “planned in advance, but there will be consultations on the talks with the USA,” said the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Esmaeil Baghaei.
The United States and its western allies accuse Iran of using its nuclear program to develop weapons. Tehran says that work only has civilian purposes.
Iran’s diplomatic efforts to solve the nuclear dispute and to raise sanctions against the fighting economy have accelerated in view of the claims of US President Donald Trump, which is threatened with military measures.
Iran and the USA said on the weekend that they had had “positive” and “constructive” conversations, although negotiations with the intermediary in Oman remain indirect.
The couple agreed to reconstruct reports on Saturday on Monday, which indicates that Rome will be hosting.
Russia, a constant member of the United Nations Security Council, has played a role in nuclear negotiations between west and Iran in recent years.
As an ally of Tehran, it was a signing of a nuclear contract from 2015, in which international inspections agreed and sanctions declined, but Trump gave the deal as President during his first term in 2018.
In the middle of the renewed negotiations between Iran and the USA, Moscow has called for a focus on diplomatic contacts instead of actions that could lead to escalation.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Monday that Foreign Minister Lavrov will meet Araghchi.
“We expect Iranian colleagues, talks with Sergey Lavrov and meetings with Russian officials are planned,” said the ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova,.
The meetings in Moscow expand the contacts between the Allies regarding the nuclear discussions. Shortly before the meeting in Oman, Russia and Iran, China was accompanied in the consultations.
In contrast, the western allies in Washington try to avoid a similar fate in relation to Iran in discussions about war in Ukraine.
The French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot asserted on Monday that the European countries will observe closely when negotiations are continued.
“Together with our British and German friends and partners, we will be vigilant to ensure that all (US Iran) negotiations that may take place correspond to our security interests in relation to the Iranian nuclear program,” said Barrot when he arrived to a meeting for Foreign Minister of the European Union in Luxembourg.
France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union, have negotiated the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, China, Russia and the United States.
In the meantime, the UN -Nuclear -Wachhund boss Rafael Grossi will visit Tehran on Wednesday to meet Araghchi and other high -ranking civil servants, said Iranian officials.
The General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEO), who last visited Iran in November, when he had talks with civil servants, to which President Masoud Peeshkian belonged, said on social media: “The continued engagement and cooperation with the agency are at a time when diplomatic solutions are required.”
In a report in February, IAEO said that Iran had enriched an estimated uranium from 274.8 kg (605 lb) to up to 60 percent, near the 90 percent level that was necessary for the production of nuclear weapons.
Ambiguous signals
Before the next talks, Iran and the USA continue to offer ambiguous signals.
Iran has not yet confirmed the location of the next talks, but reports that sources have informed the media that the discussions will take place in Rome.
Baghaei said how the negotiations in Oman was indirectly the next round under Omani mediation. Direct conversations are “not effective” and “not useful,” said the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
Tehran also insists that the talks focus exclusively on the “nuclear problem and the abolition of sanctions” and that Iran “will not have any other topics discussions with the American side”.
Trump said the talks were “okay” and told reporters in the United States on Sunday that after meeting consultants he was expecting a quick decision on the nuclear program.
