SEVERAL Iranian and U.S. officials confirmed the indirect negotiations regarding Tehran’s nuclear program, some of which took place in Oman last month.
Some Iranian officials described the informal, unwritten deal as a “political ceasefire.”
The deal seeks to monitor Tehran’s pledge not to enrich uranium beyond its current level of 60 percent purity.
The informal, unwritten deal also requires Iran to increase cooperation with UN nuclear inspectors, to stop its proxy terror groups from attacking US contractors in Iraq and Syria, to avoid providing Russia with ballistic missiles, and to release three American-Iranians held in the Islamic Republic.
In return, the United States would agree not to increase economic sanctions, to stop confiscating Iranian oil, and not to seek punitive resolutions against Iran at the United Nations or the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Moreover, Iran wants the United States to unfreeze billions of dollars in Iranian assets in exchange for the release of three Iranian American prisoners, although Washington has not yet given a concrete response on the matter.
Efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers still hang in the balance years after it was abandoned by former President Donald Trump in 2018.
Defense ministers from Israel and the United States vowed to expand military cooperation against Iran during a meeting in Europe on Thursday.
