Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said the latest talks between Iranian and U.S. negotiators to resolve disputes over Tehran's nuclear program were "more serious and more straightforward” than previous rounds, as they came to a close in Oman on Sunday (May 11), Reuters reports.
Further negotiations are planned, officials said, after Tehran insisted in public on continuing uranium enrichment.
Though Tehran and Washington both have said they prefer diplomacy to resolve the decades-long nuclear dispute, they remain deeply divided on several red lines that negotiators will have to circumvent to reach a new nuclear deal and avert future military action.
Araqchi and Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff held the fourth round of talks in Muscat through Omani mediators, despite Washington taking a tough stance in public that Iranian officials said would not help the negotiations.
