{"id":16064,"date":"2026-02-23T03:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/16064\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:28:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:28:21","slug":"araghchi-says-to-likely-meet-with-witkoff-thursday-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/16064\/","title":{"rendered":"Araghchi says to likely meet with Witkoff Thursday in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talking to the CBS News on Sunday, Araghchi said that the Iranian negotiating team headed by him are working to prepare a framework draft for a potential agreement, adding that he will likely meet with the US negotiator Steve Witkoff in Geneva on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they (American side) want to find a resolution for Iran&#8217;s peaceful nuclear program, the only way is diplomacy,&#8221; the Iranian negotiator said, adding that &#8220;there is still a good chance to have a diplomatic solution which is based on a win-win game. A solution is at our reach.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further stressed that any military build-up cannot help find a solution.<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question whether the Iranian team will have a draft proposal within two to\u00a0 three days, Araghchi said that &#8220;we are still working on that&#8230;.we are trying to make it something which consists of elements which can accommodate both sides&#8217; concerns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we meet, probably this Thursday in Geneva, we can work on those elements and prepare a good text and come to a fast deal. This is my understanding. I see it quite possible,&#8221; Araghchi added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He later argued that a better deal than 2015&#8217;s JCPOA is possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lead Iranian negotiator further stressed Iran&#8217;s right to enrichment of uranium, but still said that a solution could be obtained despite Trump&#8217;s administration on zero enrichment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He later stressed the peaceful nature of Iranian atomic program, saying that Tehran does not want to give it up and wants to exercise its right.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talking to the CBS News on Sunday, Araghchi said that the Iranian negotiating team headed by him are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,4867,4887,6053,4417],"class_list":["post-16064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-geneva","tag-iran-us-talks","tag-nuclear-negotiations","tag-seyed-abbas-araghchi","tag-steve-witkoff"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}