Iran and US. agree to more talks over Tehran’s nuclear talks

Iran and the United States on Saturday, April 12, 2025, have agreed to hold more negotiations next week over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

This was disclosed by Iranian state television on Saturday.

This came at the end of the first round of talks between the two countries since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

Iranian state TV said U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi “briefly spoke in the presence of the Omani foreign minister”.

They spoke at the end of the talks, marking a direct interactions between the two nations locked in decades of tensions.

Aragachi later told Iranian state TV that the next round of talks will take place April, 19.

He described the negotiations so far as constructive.

He told state TV there were four rounds of messages exchanged indirectly between Iran and the U.S. during the talks in Muscat, Oman.

American officials did not immediately acknowledge the Iranian reports, which Tehran likely speeded out to its public ahead of a possible Trump post on a social media.

But declaring that the two sides spoke face-to-face — even if briefly — suggests the negotiations went well.

The talks began at around 3:30 p.m. local.

The two sides spoke for over two hours at a location in the outskirts of Oman, ending the talks around 5:50 p.m. local time.

The convoy believed to be carrying Witkoff returned to Muscat, the capital of Oman.

It then disappeared into traffic around a neighborhood that is home to the U.S. Embassy.

The stakes of the negotiations couldn’t be higher for the two nations closing in on half a century of enmity.

Trump repeatedly has threatened to unleash airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program if a deal isn’t reached.

Iranian officials increasingly warn that they could pursue a nuclear weapon with their stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

Sanctions relief and enrichment remain top issues

While the U.S. side can offer sanctions relief for Iran’s beleaguered economy, it remains unclear just how much Iran will be willing to concede.

Under the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran could only maintain a small stockpile of uranium enriched to 3.67%.

On Saturday, Tehran’s stockpile could allow it to build multiple nuclear weapons if it so chooses.

Also, it has some material enriched up to 60%, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels.

Judging from negotiations since Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the deal in 2018, Iran will likely ask to keep enriching uranium up to at least 20%.

One thing it won’t do is give up its program entirely.

That makes the proposal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of a so-called Libyan solution, quoted as:

“you go in, blow up the facilities, dismantle all the equipment, under American supervision, American execution”  unworkable.

Iranians including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have held up what ultimately happened to the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi,  as a warning about what can happen when you trust the United States.

Gadaffi was killed with his own gun by rebels in the country’s 2011 Arab Spring uprising,

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