(23 May 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rome – 23 May 2025
1. Delegations arriving at Omani embassy and entering from back gate
2. Security officers
3. Various of delegations arriving
4. Placard reading Embassy of Oman sultanate in Arabic and Italian
5. Zoom out of delegation car
6. Various of journalists outside embassy
7. Omani embassy
STORYLINE:
Iran and the United States convoys arrived at the Omani embassy in Rome for a fifth round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program Friday, with enrichment emerging as the key issue.
The embassy, which is located in the Italian capital’s Camilluccia neighborhood, previously served as the site of another round of talks.
The delegation cars were seen just after 1 p.m.
Iranian media just before 2 p.m. announced the talks had begun, without elaborating.
U.S. officials up to President Donald Trump insist Iran cannot continue to enrich uranium at all in any deal that could see sanctions lifted on Tehran’s struggling economy.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi early Friday insisted online that no enrichment would mean “we do NOT have a deal.”
“Figuring out the path to a deal is not rocket science,” Araghchi wrote on the social platform X. “Time to decide.”
The U.S. is again represented in the talks by Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Michael Anton, the State Department’s policy planning director.
Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi is mediating the negotiations as the sultanate on the Arabian Peninsula has been a trusted interlocutor by both Tehran and Washington in the talks.
AP video by Andrea Rosa
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