4th round of US-Iran talks ends as Trump set to embark on historic Middle East tour

JERUSALEM—With President Donald Trump acceptable to permission for the Middle East connected Monday, talks betwixt the U.S. and the Islamic Republic of Iran concluded a 4th circular of negotiations successful Oman connected Sunday implicit Tehran’s illicit atomic weapons program. 

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

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said the atomic talks were "difficult but useful." A U.S. official, speaking connected information of anonymity to sermon the 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 determination guardant with the talks to proceed moving done method elements," the U.S. authoritative said. "We are encouraged by today’s result and look guardant to our adjacent meeting, which volition hap successful the 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 with Iran implicit its amerciable atomic weapons program. The archetypal U.S. negotiating league with Iran commenced connected April 12. 

Mardo Soghom, an Iran expert and journalist, noted anterior to the commencement of talks respective months agone that Iran’s authorities volition spell to large lengths to sphere its close to enrich uranium—the worldly required for a atomic weapon. The Trump medication 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 code [Saturday] highlighted that 2nd point. But astatine this point, the main contented is dismantling Iran's uranium enrichment," Soghom told Fox News Digital.

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

Jason Brodsky, the argumentation manager of United Against Nuclear Iran, told Fox News Digital that "The Iranians, similar past round, dependable much downcast than the U.S. side, describing talks arsenic difficult."

In 2018, President Trump withdrew from erstwhile President Barack Obama’s 2015 atomic woody with Iran, known formally arsenic the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), due to the fact that the accord failed to forestall Tehran from gathering a atomic weapons device, according to the archetypal Trump administration.

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

President Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff precocious stressed that Iran cannot person an enrichment programme during an interrogation with 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 marque 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 physique a weapon. We judge successful each of that. That was not JCPOA. JCPOA had sunset provisions that burned disconnected the obligations and burned disconnected the sanctions alleviation astatine inappropriate times. It’s ne'er going to hap successful this deal."

Brodsky said that "All successful all, some sides privation to support the process moving. The Iranians volition usually accidental and bash capable to gain different gathering arsenic they basal to suffer much by this process breaking down than the U.S. government. The negotiating process is arsenic important to the Iranians arsenic the statement itself arsenic the process offers insulation from the interaction of sanctions—with the rial strengthening since talks started—and extortion from a subject strike.

"This is wherefore Iran volition privation these negotiations to proceed for arsenic agelong arsenic possible. They volition effort to deterioration retired and exhaust U.S. negotiators into concessions, which the Trump medication should reject. As President Trump said successful a antithetic context, Tehran does not person the 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 contented of uranium enrichment has plagued talks with Iran implicit the past fewer decades. The Europeans faced aggravated disapproval erstwhile they agreed—independent of the U.S.—to allow the Islamic Republic to enrich uranium during the nascent signifier of atomic talks during the aboriginal years of this century.

Brodsky said "The archetypal misdeed of U.S. decision-making connected Iran’s atomic programme was erstwhile the Obama medication changed the U.S. presumption from zero enrichment to tolerating enrichment astatine 3.67%. That laid the groundwork for Iran to clasp the capableness to proceed to usage its atomic programme to extort the United States and yet physique a atomic weapon."

The atomic adept noted, "That should extremity today, and caller comments from President Trump, Special Envoy Witkoff, and Secretary Rubio hopefully awesome that this epoch is over. House and Senate Republicans were besides precise wide connected this constituent implicit the past week. The Iranians accidental they privation 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 formal up a saltation of the 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 representation of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a parade connected the juncture of the 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 quality outlet, Kayhan, that serves arsenic the 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, the superior of Oman. Iran's authorities spokesperson, Baghaei, said that a determination connected the adjacent circular of talks is nether discussion.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.