Iran says new round of US talks planned for Sunday

TEHRAN — Iran’s foreign ministry has said a new round of nuclear talks with the United States is being planned for Sunday, after President Donald Trump said it was expected on Thursday. “The next round of Iran-U.S. indirect talks is being planned for next Sunday in Muscat,” foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in a statement Tuesday, adding foreign minister and chief negotiator Abbas Araghchi would this week attend the Norway’s Oslo Forum, a gathering of conflict mediators. Iran and the United States have held five rounds of talks since April to thrash out a new nuclear deal to replace the 2015 accord with major powers that Trump abandoned during his first term in 2018. On May 31, after the fifth round of talks, Iran said it had received “elements” of a U.S. proposal for a nuclear deal, with Araghchi later saying the text contained “ambiguities”. Iran said on Monday the U.S. proposal was “lacking elements” reflective of the previous negotiations and that it would present a “reasonable, logical and balanced” counter-proposal to the United States through mediator Oman. Trump has

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