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US and Iran agree to Friday talks in Oman but still at odds over agenda
By Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Parisa Hafezi
February 4, 202612:27 AM PSTUpdated 13 hours ago
- Summary
- Tensions have escalated since Iran’s crackdown on protests
- Iran requested talks be moved to Oman to limit scope
- Iran wants talks to focus only on its nuclear programme
- Rubio says talks should include missile programme, other issues
WASHINGTON/DUBAI, Feb 4 – The U.S. and Iran have agreed to hold talks in Oman on Friday, officials for both sides said, even as they remained at odds over Washington’s insistence that negotiations include Tehran’s missile arsenal and Iran’s vow to discuss only its nuclear program.
The delicate diplomatic effort comes amid heightened tensions as the U.S. builds up forces in the Middle East and regional players seek to avoid a military confrontation that many fear could escalate into a wider war.
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Differences in recent days over the scope and venue for the talks have raised doubts whether the meeting would take place, leaving open the possibility that U.S. President Donald Trump could carry out his threat to strike Iran.
Asked on Wednesday whether Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should be worried, Trump told NBC News: “I would say he should be very worried. Yeah, he should be.” He added that “they’re negotiating with us” but did not elaborate.
After Trump spoke, U.S. and Iranian officials said the two sides had agreed to shift the talks’ location to Muscat after initially accepting Istanbul.
But there was no indication they had found common ground on the agenda.
Iran has pushed to restrict the negotiations to discussing its long-running nuclear dispute with Western countries.
But U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio presented a different view on Wednesday. “If the Iranians want to meet, we’re ready,” Rubio told reporters. But he added that talks would have to include the range of Iran’s ballistic missiles, its support for armed proxy groups around the Middle East and its treatment of its own people, besides nuclear issues.
A senior Iranian official said, however, that Iran’s missile programme was “off the table.” A second senior Iranian official said Tehran would welcome negotiations over the nuclear dispute but that U.S. insistence on dealing with non-nuclear issues could jeopardize the talks.
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was due to take part in the talks, along with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, officials said.
LLAW’s Thoughts, Concerns, and Fears about Today’s Nuclear World and Beyond . . .
This — see the Reuters article above — all sound s more of the same B.S. that Trump has created for every potential talk— except for the meaningless first one — that had only one representative from the U.S. who had no idea about what such a meeting was all about — and of course it fell apart, crashed, and Trump made sure that every future meeting after that was canceled as well by changing the previously settled-on agreed to rules just a day or two before the meetings were to be held, forcing Iran to cancel.
So now I see that his time around Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is due to take part in the talks this t6ime, along with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, a real-estate agent, who was the appointee from the April 9th first and only talk, which went nowhere., of course.
We will see how this one goes, if it goes at all, but I believe it will all come to nothing, and that Trump will make sure it fails. As I wrote in my return to this section of my daily blog posts, I believe that Trump is likely secretly in favor of nuclear war, and now that there is no nuclear agreement between Russia and the U.S. , all the major attention and apprehension will turn to the thing that will eventually kill us all known as “nuclear deterrence”, which means a cold war based on adding and upgrading nuclear weapons of mass destruction, which camouflages where and when a real smaller nuclear conflict might break out that will give the U.S., Russia, and perhaps China to turn the first suicidal — and last — nuclear war into WWIII. Please let me be wrong! . . . ~llaw
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