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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - GENEVA — US and Iranian officials have made "significant progress" in high-stakes nuclear talks in Geneva on Thursday, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi has said, but walked away without a deal that could avert another war in the Middle East.
Albusaidi, who acted as mediator in the talks, said the two sides planned to resume negotiations "soon" after consultations in their capitals, and technical-level discussions would take place next week in Vienna.
But just before the talks ended, Iranian state television reported that Tehran was determined to continue enriching uranium, rejected proposals to transfer it abroad and sought the lifting of international sanctions, indicating it was not prepared to meet US President Donald Trump’s demands.
Trump wants a deal to constrain Iran’s nuclear program, and he sees an opportunity while the country is struggling at home with growing dissent following nationwide protests. Iran also hopes to avert war, but maintains it has the right to enrich uranium and does not want to discuss other issues, such as its long-range missile program or support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.
Al-Busaidi said technical talks involving lower-level representatives would continue next week in Vienna, the home of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The United Nations’ atomic watchdog likely would be critical in any deal.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who led his country's delegation, said "good progress" had been made and while there had been agreement on some issues, differences remained on others.
He said the next round of negotiations would happen in a less than a week.
With the prospect of further talks, the chances are less for Trump carrying out his threats to attack Iran.
Trump has ordered the largest US military build-up in the Middle East since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, while Iran has vowed to respond to an attack with force.
According to Iranian state media, negotiators insisted that Iran had the right to peaceful nuclear energy and rejected US demands to completely stop the enrichment of uranium in Iranian territory and to transfer its stockpile of 400kg (880lb) of enriched uranium out of the country.
But officials are believed to have offered concessions, although the proposals have not been made public. One of the reported options was for Iran to be allowed to enrich uranium at a minimal level after a three-to-five-year suspension, under international monitoring.
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In return for a deal, Araghchi told Iranian television that the negotiators demanded the lifting of sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy.
The indirect talks happened in two sessions. One in the morning, that lasted three hours, and another, shorter, in the evening. There was no immediate US reaction on the outcome.
As in previous rounds, the US was represented by special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Rafael Grossi, the head of the global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), also joined the negotiations.
It remains unclear which conditions Trump could find acceptable for a deal, and the president has done little to explain why there could be the need to take military action now, eight months after the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities during a war between Israel and Iran.
Iran has already rejected discussing limits to the country's ballistic missile programme and ending its support for proxies in the region, including Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, militias in Iraq, and the Houthis in Yemen.
In recent weeks, the US has sent thousands of troops and what Trump has described as an "armada" to the region, including two aircraft carriers along with other warships, as well as fighter jets and refuelling aircraft.
In his State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday, Trump briefly and vaguely talked about the tensions with Iran, without clearly laying out the case for strikes.
He said Iran was working to build missiles that would "soon" be capable of reaching the US, without giving details. He also accused the country of trying to "start all over again" with a nuclear weapons program following last year's strikes, and said he could not allow the "world's number one sponsor of terror... to have a nuclear weapon".
Hours before the speech, however, the Iranian foreign minister posted on social media that Iran would "under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon". — Agencies
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