Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said Tehran will not back down on its “nuclear rights”, hours before talks with the US on the subject were to resume in Oman. He told an Arab-Iranian conference in Doha on Saturday night that “if the goal of these talks is to ensure the non-acquisition of nuclear weapons,

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi hailed enrichment as a national achievement just before the fourth Iran–US round in Muscat, while Washington has maintained that Iran's enrichment facilities have to be dismantled.

Iran and the United States will meet again this weekend for talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.