Positive Developments at Home and Abroad
By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
If positive is the word to describe developments that occur to the benefit of the seekers of progress, press, and prosperity in various spheres, including economic, industrial, cultural, educational, health, financial, sports, social, political, and etc., then the week that ended last night in Iran, was indeed positive.
The Iranian rial gained strength against foreign currencies in the local and international markets.
Iranian scientists continued to master new vistas. While, neurologists devised new methods to cure the elderly of brain malfunctions without the need of dissecting the skull, defence experts designed sophisticated armaments capable of penetrating the most advanced defences of the enemy – displayed during the military parades throughout the country on National Army Day.
Athletes continued their winning sprees in different sports arenas, as trade ties with various countries brought new dividends.
On the regional arena, for the first time in 19 years a senior-most Saudi Arabian official visited the Islamic Republic to hold fruitful talks with the top officials.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, granted an audience to Defence Minister Khaled bin Salman Aal Saud, as a sign of growing cordiality between Tehran and Riyadh.
Experts of the atomic energy sector continued to invent and innovate vital components of Iran’s peaceful nuclear project, which on the international scene saw a sort of confidence building during the second round of indirect talks with the US through Oman’s foreign minister.
The 4-hour talks in Rome between Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi and Steve Witkoff, the US president’s special envoy for West Asia affairs, on Saturday, saw Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi facilitating exchange of messages between the two sides sitting in different halls at his official residence in the Italian capital.
Araqchi said the Iranian and US delegations agreed to continue the talks and open expert-level technical discussions on April 23, before a third round of high-level indirect negotiations between him and Witkoff in Muscat, the capital of Oman April 26.
Although it is too early to say the indirect talks will yield fruits, the fact that the two sides have decided to hold a third round is proof of the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear project, which is gaining momentum on the international scene to the chagrin of the illegal Zionist entity.
In the words of the Omani foreign minister, the two sides are seeking a deal that confirms the fact that Iran does not seek nuclear weapons and has the right to develop peaceful nuclear energy, is indeed a positive development.