After 1st Round Today, Iran, US Agree To Continue Nuclear Talks Next Week

Iran’s foreign minister said Saturday that the next round of nuclear negotiations with the United States will take place Saturday, April 19. Abbas Araghchi made the comments to Iranian state television, which also reported that he described the negotiations as constructive.

Araghchi said there were four rounds of messages exchanged indirectly between Iran and the US during the talks in Muscat, Oman.

Araghchi and US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff spoke briefly together at the end of the meeting, Iranian state TV said, marking a direct interactions between the two nations locked in decades of tensions.

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, before disappearing into traffic around a neighborhood that is home to the US Embassy.