President Donald Trump said "very good meetings" were held in Doha as US and Iranian officials gathered in the Qatari capital for indirect technical talks, with Qatar and Pakistan serving as mediators."The denuclearization of Iran is moving along well," Trump told reporters on July 1, as both Washington and Tehran reported the talks mainly focused on the implementation of the memorandum of understanding (MOU).
Signed last month by Trump and Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian, the deal envisioned a path to a final agreement to end the conflict in the region.It provided for waiving US oil sanctions on Iran, while tying the end of wider sanctions and the release of frozen assets to Iran's implementation of commitments, such as "down-blending" its stocks of highly enriched uranium under IAEA supervision.Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi, who took part in July 1 negotiations, announced that working groups had been formed in Doha to follow up on the MOU and negotiate a final agreement, but talks in that format had not yet begun.The diplomatic push followed recent exchanges of fire between US and Iranian forces in the region after Tehran targeted a commercial ship it said had strayed from its approved route through the Strait of Hormuz.
