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On Thursday representatives of the U.S. and Oman (representing Iran) met in Geneva, Switzerland to continue negotiations on a new Iran nuclear deal.
White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, met with the Omani Foreign Minister who delivered Tehran’s proposals:
His Excellency Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi @badralbusaidi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, held a meeting this morning in the city of Geneva with Steve Witkoff, the U.S. President’s envoy, and Jared Kushner, as part of the ongoing Iranian-American negotiations.
The meeting addressed a review of the Iranian side’s perspectives and proposals, along with the responses and inquiries from the American negotiating team regarding the handling of the key elements of Iran’s nuclear program and the necessary guarantees to achieve the desired agreement for this important dossier from all its technical and oversight aspects.
His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs clarified that the efforts are continuing intensively and in a constructive spirit, under the negotiators’ unprecedented openness to new and creative ideas and solutions, while preparing the supportive conditions for progress and reaching a fair agreement with sustainable guarantees.
While the talks concluded for Thursday, future negotiations will resume next week, after Tehran and Washington get debriefed on the diplomatic developments:
We have finished the day after significant progress in the negotiation between the United States and Iran. We will resume soon after consultation in the respective capitals. Discussions on a technical level will take place next week in Vienna. I am grateful to all concerned for their efforts: the negotiators, the IAEA, and our hosts the Swiss government.
“There was no immediate comment from U.S. or Iranian officials,” The AP reported directly following the meeting’s conclusion.
On February 17 Tehran announced that they will be submitting proposals in the coming weeks, which took place Thursday.
According to The Associated Press, constructive proposals were exchanged on Thursday:
Iran’s foreign ministry says delegates from the country and the United States have exchanged “very constructive” proposals so far in their third round of nuclear talks in Geneva.
On February 19 President Donald Trump set a 10-day deadline for Iran to make a deal, or face U.S. military operations against it. While that deadline is Sunday, next week’s negotiations appear to have extended it, or nullified it.
“So now we may have to take it a step further, or we may not,” Trump said on February 19 while speaking at the first meeting of his new Board of Peace working group. “Maybe we’re going to make a deal. You’re going to be finding out over the next probably 10 days.”
Enrichment remains a key issue, as uranium that is enriched to the level needed for nuclear energy could be further enriched to weapons-grade. Iran maintains they are not seeking to create nuclear weapons, but also stands firm on their intent to develop nuclear energy technologies.
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On Monday ZeroHedge reported that Iran is seeking U.S. oil investment and sanctions rollback for Thursday’s meeting topics.
Trump has remained optimistic of reaching a nuclear deal with Iran over the last year.
Trump was unhappy with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and withdrew from it during his first term in office. He has since been seeking to enact a new agreement.
Notably, this 2015 ‘Iran nuclear deal’ involved President Barack Obama shipping $400 million in cash on pallets to Tehran in exchange for the promise they will refrain from developing nuclear weapons.
