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Iran calls talks with US constructive and promising: What’s behind such optimism? Iran has described the recent round of indirect talks with the United States as “constructive and promising.” Middle East expert Boris Dolgov explains the context behind these positive remarks. Photo: Mehr News Agency by Mohammadreza Abbasi, Iran military exercises Following the first round…
This combination of pictures created on April 09, 2025 shows US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff after a meeting with Russian officials at Diriyah Palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on February 18, 2025 (L); and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to AFP during an interview at the Iranian consulate in Jeddah on March 7,…
Iranian and US negotiators agreed to a second round of high-level talks over Tehran’s nuclear programs next week after meeting on April 12 for more than two hours of what both sides described as a “positive” and “constructive” session. “The discussions were very positive and constructive,” the White House said after the meeting in the…
Envoys from Iran and the United States began negotiations Saturday in Oman over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. No overall agreement is immediately likely, but the stakes of the negotiations couldn’t be higher for these two nations closing in on half a century of enmity. Trump repeatedly has threatened to…
A brief handshake may be the most likely outcome from preliminary diplomatic talks set for Saturday between American and Iranian officials. It would probably be enough to keep the discussions going, and potentially lead to the first official face-to-face negotiations between the two countries since President Trump abandoned a landmark nuclear accord seven years ago….
It was a closely held, urgent meeting. Iran was pondering a response to President Trump’s letter seeking nuclear negotiations. So the country’s president, as well as the heads of the judiciary and Parliament huddled with Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last month, according to two senior Iranian officials familiar with the meeting. Mr. Khamenei…
In 2016, running for president and pressed for details on how he would handle some of the world’s knottiest security issues, then-candidate Donald J. Trump had a simple formula for defanging the Iranian nuclear program. Barack Obama’s negotiating team, he said, should have just gotten up from the table and stormed out. The Iranians would…
President Trump said on Monday that the United States would engage in “direct” negotiations with Iran next Saturday in a last-ditch effort to rein in the country’s nuclear program, saying Tehran would be “in great danger” if it failed to reach an accord. If direct talks take place, they would be the first official face-to-face…
Amid an attempt by US President Donald Trump’s administration to halt congressionally allocated funding from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), the broadcaster’s audiences in the countries it covers are voicing support and admiration for its journalism. From Iran to Belarus, Afghanistan to Russia, Pakistan to Ukraine: Readers and listeners praised RFE/RL journalists for their brave,…
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, in Kyiv on a surprise visit, has warned against falling for Russia’s stalling tactics in peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. The outgoing German diplomat, on her ninth trip to Ukraine since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, said she believes Kyiv is ready to…
