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Iran says ‘indirect talks’ begin with a US envoy over Tehran’s nuclear program
AP ^ | 4/12/25 | Jon Gambrell

Posted on 04/12/2025 6:45:01 AM PDT by hardspunned

MUSCAT, Oman (AP) — 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 unleash airstrikes targeting Iran’s nuclear program if a deal isn’t reached. Iranian officials increasingly warn that they could pursue a nuclear weapon with their stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels.

Flight-tracking data analyzed by The Associated Press showed a private jet from Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, arrived in Oman on Saturday morning. U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff had just met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday there.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran
KEYWORDS: iran
Lots of saber rattling but no war. Trump is a man of peace, he’ll get a deal beneficial for both sides. Want to kneecap China, start by cozying up to the owners their oil lifeline by becoming a more important trading partner than Xi is.
1 posted on 04/12/2025 6:45:01 AM PDT by hardspunned
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Hopefully we get some good news out of this , we really don’t need a war with Iran.


2 posted on 04/12/2025 6:52:15 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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Hopefully, anyone from our side is aware of that peoples’ unmatched experience, thousands of years in fact back to and beyond ancient Persia, in the art of the bold faced lie.


3 posted on 04/12/2025 7:29:09 AM PDT by katana
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“Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone
They paved paradise, put up a parking lot”


4 posted on 04/12/2025 7:41:09 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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“Talks” with these murderous savages should be direct and kinetic.


5 posted on 04/12/2025 11:41:02 AM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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