{"id":16672,"date":"2025-05-11T15:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/fresh-round-of-us-iran-talks-underway-in-oman-as-two-sides-try-to-overcome-deep-divisions\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:02:48","slug":"fresh-round-of-us-iran-talks-underway-in-oman-as-two-sides-try-to-overcome-deep-divisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/fresh-round-of-us-iran-talks-underway-in-oman-as-two-sides-try-to-overcome-deep-divisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh round of US-Iran talks underway in Oman as two sides try to overcome deep divisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmaji79cc005827p3egam12tz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A fourth round of talks between the US and Iran on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program have begun in Oman, according to Iranian state media, with the two sides aiming to overcome divisions that could scupper the tentative negotiations.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmaji7dlx00003d5tve9qsrwz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The talks, held indirectly, are the latest between the two countries, and are aimed at addressing Tehran\u2019s nuclear program and lifting sanctions.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmaji89lk00053d5tf9ly9ff1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The Iranian delegation is led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who said before the talks got underway that the US side \u201cholds contradictory positions which is one of the issues in our negotiations.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmaji89lk00063d5twn0phjvf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cWe have been clear about our boundaries,\u201d Araghchi added, according to the Fars news agency.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmajir8yu000c3d5tvql3hmd1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            US special envoy Steve Witkoff, who has been heading the American side, warned that if talks were not productive, \u201cthen they won\u2019t continue and we\u2019ll have to take a different route.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmajir8yu000d3d5terj1u1wr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Speaking to Breitbart, Witkoff outlined the US\u2019 expectations for the talks, including on the country\u2019s uranium enrichment program. \u201cAn enrichment program can never exist in the state of Iran ever again. That\u2019s our red line. No enrichment,\u201d he said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmajir8yu000e3d5t10mbsfu4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Iran has said it will not surrender its capability to enrich uranium. The country has long insisted it does not want a nuclear weapon and that its program is for energy purposes.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmaji79cc005927p34suu880h@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            <i>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/i>    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fourth round of talks between the US and Iran on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}