The Iranians are conducting careful and complex diplomatic work, aimed, among other things, at ensuring the long-term vital interests of the country even before the start of negotiations. Voskanyan

At the moment, there are not negotiations between Iran and the United States, but contacts regarding negotiations. Iranian scholar Vardan Voskanyan wrote about this. “Judging by the available information leaks, at this stage official Tehran seeks to limit possible negotiations, firstly, exclusively to the agenda of the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program and the lifting of anti-Iranian sanctions, without touching on either the missile program or the issue of regional Iranian proxy forces; secondly, to conduct these negotiations exclusively in the Iran-US bilateral format, excluding the participation of other regional actors; and thirdly, to hold them not in Istanbul, but in the capital of Oman, excluding Turkey from giving additional weight and turning the negotiations into another stage of the interrupted Iranian-American negotiation process that took place before the 12-day war last year. “The extent to which Iran will be able to achieve these goals will become clear in the coming days, but it is obvious that even in the face of a constant military threat from the most powerful superpower in the world, the Iranians are carrying out careful and complex diplomatic work, aimed, among other things, at ensuring the long-term vital interests of the country even before the start of negotiations,” Voskanyan wrote.