• Iran, us to hold the fourth round of conversations in Muscat.
• Trump’s trip to the Middle East starts on May 13.
• The top dealer Witkoff says the red line is ‘no enrichment’.

DUBAI: Top Iranian and US dealers will resume conversations on Sunday to tackle Tehran’s nuclear program, in a push for progress as Washington hardens his attitude ahead of US President Donald Trump’s Middle East visit.

Although Tehran and Washington have both said they prefer diplomacy to resolve the decades of the decades, they remain deeply divided into several red lines that dealers will have to bypass to reach a new nuclear agreement and avert future military action.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Trump’s Middle East -Release Steve Witkoff will hold the fourth round of negotiations in Muscat through Omani brokers, despite Washington taking a hard attitude publicly that Iranian officials said would not help negotiations.

Witkoff told Breitbart News Thursday is that Washington’s red line is: “No enrichment. It means settlement, no weapons,” that requires complete settlement of Iran’s nuclear facilities in Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan.

“If they are not productive on Sunday, they will not continue and we will have to take another route,” Witkoff said in the interview.

Trump, who has threatened military action against Iran, whose diplomacy fails, will travel to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates on 13-16. May.

In Reactioning on Witkoff’s comments, Araqchi said on Saturday that Iran would not compromise on its nuclear rights.

“Iran continues the negotiations in good faith … If the purpose of these conversations is to limit Iran’s nuclear rights, I clearly say Iran will not return from any of its rights,” Araqchi said.

Tehran is willing to negotiate some curbs on his nuclear work in return for the termination of sanctions, according to Iranian officials, but to end his enrichment program or surrender its enriched uranium warehouse is among “Iran’s red lines that could not be compromised” in the conversations.

A senior Iranian official close to the negotiating team said the United States requires “zero enrichment and dismantling of Iran’s nuclear places that would not help move on with the negotiations”.

“What the United States says publicly differs from what is said in the negotiations,” the official said on condition of anonymity.

He said cases would become clearer when the negotiations take place on Sunday, which was originally scheduled for May 3 in Rome, but was postponed because of what Oman described as “logistical reasons”.

Furthermore, Iran has flatly excluded negotiating his ballistic missile program, and the spiritual company requires waterproof guarantee that Trump would not again ditch a nuclear covenant.

Trump, who has restored a “maximum pressure” campaign on Tehran since February, left Tehran’s Nuclear Covenant in 2015 with six world powers in 2018 during his first period and reintroduced paralyzing sanctions against Iran.

Iran, who has long said that its nuclear program is peaceful, has violated PACT’s nuclear curb since 2019, including “dramatic”, which speeds up its enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the approx. 90% level, which is a weapon class, according to the UN’s nuclear watchdog.