4th Round Of Us-iran Talks Ends As Trump Set To Embark On Historic Middle East Tour

JERUSALEM—With President Donald Trump group to time off for nan Middle East connected Monday, talks betwixt nan U.S. and nan Islamic Republic of Iran concluded a 4th information of negotiations successful Oman connected Sunday complete Tehran’s illicit atomic weapons program. 

A time earlier nan commencement of talks, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei welcomed chants of "Death to America" successful Tehran. "Your judgement is right," Khamenei told a crowd of supporters who called for nan demolition of nan U.S.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said nan atomic talks were "difficult but useful." A U.S. official, speaking connected information of anonymity to talk nan closed-door negotiations, offered a small spot more, describing them arsenic being some indirect and direct, The Associated Press reported.

An "agreement was reached to move guardant pinch nan talks to proceed moving done method elements," the U.S. charismatic said. "We are encouraged by today’s result and look guardant to our adjacent meeting, which will hap successful nan adjacent future."

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei attends Nowruz events successful Tehran, Iran, connected March 21, 2025. (Photo by Iranian Leader Press Office / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

President Trump announced a 60-day clip framework to scope an statement pinch Iran complete its forbidden atomic weapons program. The first U.S. negotiating convention pinch Iran commenced connected April 12. 

Mardo Soghom, an Iran expert and journalist, noted anterior to nan commencement of talks respective months agone that Iran’s authorities will spell to awesome lengths to sphere its correct to enrich uranium—the worldly required for a atomic weapon. The Trump management vehemently opposes a uranium enrichment programme connected Iranian soil.

"Iran is trying to prevention its enrichment cognition astatine a little level and besides not accepting immoderate unit to halt its anti-Israel stance. Khamenei's reside [Saturday] highlighted that 2nd point. But astatine this point, nan main rumor is dismantling Iran's uranium enrichment," Soghom told Fox News Digital.

Khamenei besides lashed retired astatine Israel during his Saturday reside successful Tehran, declaring astir Israel’s warfare run to guidelines retired Iran-backed Hamas terrorists from nan Gaza Strip that "The group of Gaza are not facing Israel alone—they are facing America and Britain."

Jason Brodsky, nan argumentation head of United Against Nuclear Iran, told Fox News Digital that "The Iranians, for illustration past round, sound much downcast than nan U.S. side, describing talks arsenic difficult."

In 2018, President Trump withdrew from erstwhile President Barack Obama’s 2015 atomic woody pinch Iran, known formally arsenic nan Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), because nan accord grounded to forestall Tehran from building a atomic weapons device, according to nan first Trump administration.

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U.S. Special Envoy to nan Middle East Steve Witkoff, left, shakes hands pinch Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi successful Muscat, Oman, April 12, 2025. (Oman News Agency/ Handout via Reuters)

President Trump’s Special Envoy to nan Middle East Steve Witkoff precocious stressed that Iran cannot person an enrichment programme during an question and reply pinch Breitbart News anterior to Sunday’s bargaining session. 

Witkoff said "First of all, we’re ne'er doing a JCPOA woody wherever sanctions travel disconnected and there’s nary sunsetting of their obligations. That doesn’t make sense. That was a mismatched process successful JCPOA. We judge that they cannot person enrichment, they cannot person centrifuges, they cannot person thing that allows them to build a weapon. We judge successful each of that. That was not JCPOA. JCPOA had sunset provisions that burned disconnected nan obligations and burned disconnected nan sanctions alleviation astatine inappropriate times. It’s ne'er going to hap successful this deal."

Brodsky said that "All successful all, some sides want to support nan process moving. The Iranians will usually opportunity and do capable to gain different gathering arsenic they guidelines to suffer much by this process breaking down than nan U.S. government. The negotiating process is arsenic important to nan Iranians arsenic nan statement itself arsenic nan process offers insulation from nan effect of sanctions—with nan rial strengthening since talks started—and protection from a subject strike.

"This is why Iran will want these negotiations to proceed for arsenic agelong arsenic possible. They will effort to deterioration retired and exhaust U.S. negotiators into concessions, which nan Trump management should reject. As President Trump said successful a different context, Tehran does not person nan cards here."

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President Donald Trump arrives connected Air Force One astatine Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, connected Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The hot-button rumor of uranium enrichment has plagued talks pinch Iran complete nan past fewer decades. The Europeans faced aggravated disapproval erstwhile they agreed—independent of nan U.S.—to allow nan Islamic Republic to enrich uranium during nan nascent shape of atomic talks during nan early years of this century.

Brodsky said "The original misdeed of U.S. decision-making connected Iran’s atomic programme was erstwhile nan Obama management changed nan U.S. position from zero enrichment to tolerating enrichment astatine 3.67%. That laid nan groundwork for Iran to clasp nan capacity to proceed to usage its atomic programme to extort nan United States and yet build a atomic weapon."

The atomic master noted, "That should extremity today, and caller comments from President Trump, Special Envoy Witkoff, and Secretary Rubio hopefully awesome that this era is over. House and Senate Republicans were besides very clear connected this constituent complete nan past week. The Iranians opportunity they want a durable deal. But a JCPOA 2.0—tolerating enrichment astatine 3.67% and nary dismantlement of atomic facilities—would not beryllium one.

"The Iranians are engaged successful each kinds of gimmicks to dress up a variety of nan aforesaid concessions they offered to President Obama. That should beryllium unacceptable to American negotiators."

An Iranian subject motortruck carries surface-to-air missiles past a image of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a parade connected nan juncture of nan country's yearly service time connected April 18, 2018 successful Tehran, Iran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

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The anti-American news outlet, Kayhan, that serves arsenic nan mouthpiece for Khamenei, published a full-page screed against Trump wherever it stated, "He is simply a model based connected narcissism, superiority delusions, and threat-based tactics."

The talks connected Sunday ran for immoderate 3 hours successful Muscat, nan superior of Oman. Iran's authorities spokesperson, Baghaei, said that a determination connected nan adjacent information of talks is nether discussion.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.