{"id":7006,"date":"2025-05-12T03:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7006"},"modified":"2025-05-12T03:00:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T03:00:23","slug":"iran-us-wrap-up-nuclear-talks-with-no-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7006","title":{"rendered":"Iran, US wrap up nuclear talks with no breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Iran and the United States wrapped up nuclear talks in Oman on Sunday with no apparent breakthrough in a public standoff over enrichment, but with both sides confirming plans for future negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>This was the fourth round of talks that began nearly a month ago, marking the highest-level contact between the two foes since Washington withdrew in 2018 from a landmark nuclear deal, during President Donald Trump&#8217;s first term.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides had reported progress in the previous three rounds, and on Sunday Iran said the meeting was &#8220;difficult but useful&#8221; while a senior US official said Washington was &#8220;encouraged&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, Iran&#8217;s foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the talks could help &#8220;better understand each other&#8217;s positions and to find reasonable and realistic ways to address the differences&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Baqaei earlier said negotiators would push for relief from US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington was &#8220;encouraged by today&#8217;s outcome and look forward to our next meeting, which will happen in the near future&#8221;, without specifying when. Baqaei said that the &#8220;next round will be coordinated and announced by Oman&#8221;, which in turn said &#8220;the talks will take place once both parties&#8230; consult their leaderships&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the US official, the talks Sunday were &#8220;both direct and indirect, and lasted over three hours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Agreement was reached to move forward&#8221; and &#8220;continue working through technical elements&#8221;, the official added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran and the United States wrapped up nuclear talks in Oman on Sunday with no apparent breakthrough in a public standoff over enrichment, but with both sides confirming plans for future negotiations. This was the fourth round of talks that began nearly a month ago, marking the highest-level contact between the two foes since Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}