Iran, US hold talks in Oman
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Some desperate Iranians want US intervention, but others worry that it would not achieve the peace protesters ultimately want.
The presence of U.S. Navy Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the American military’s Central Command, in his dress uniform at the talks in Muscat, the Omani capital, served as a reminder that the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and other warships were now off the coast of Iran in the Arabian Sea.
The State Department warned American citizens to “leave Iran now” ahead of indirect talks in the Persian Gulf state of Oman between Washington and Tehran over the status of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
After a round of indirect talks with Trump's envoys in Oman, Iran's top diplomat says the country will keep negotiating, but stresses a lack of trust.
Images that capture the scale of the brutally suppressed protests that swept Iran between December 28 and January 11 are rare. Some NGOs report at least 18,000 people dead. Iranian photographer Yalda Moaiery managed to transmit her images of the January 8 demonstrations and the funeral of a man killed by the regime.
A large fire broke out on Friday in a carpentry workshop inside a military base in eastern Tehran, with smoke visible across the Iranian capital, but firefighters managed to put o
Tehran and Washington using military threats as leverage while quietly pursuing negotiations backed by regional diplomacy led by Türkiye, says Middle East analyst Vali Nasr - Anadolu Ajansı
The US urged its citizens to "leave Iran now" due to protests, security measures, and flight disruptions. Dual nationals face the risk of detention, the travel advisory warned.