U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews that negotiations with Iran are going "very well" and welcomed what he called "very good meetings," UNN reports, citing Al Jazeera.
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The U.S. President also indicated that Iran has "come a long way" when speaking about the current negotiations with Tehran.
"We hit them very hard last week," he said.
Trump added: "Nuclearization of Iran is very simple, and Iran cannot have nuclear weapons."
Trump, as Fox News reports, stated that "denuclearization of Iran is progressing" after intense U.S. military actions, while touting the stock market's rise and a sharp drop in domestic energy prices.
"The price of oil has dropped significantly. We fell to 68. I see it hit 68 today. That's lower than when I started, I think you could call it an attack on Iran so they never have nuclear weapons. So the price of oil is now lower, retail prices, gasoline is dropping fast."
As CNN reports, citing a diplomatic source, today in Doha, U.S. and Iranian officials are holding lower-level indirect technical talks through Pakistani and Qatari mediators.
Today and yesterday, small fragments of information about these talks have emerged, providing insight into who is participating, what is being discussed, and how the diplomatic actions are proceeding, the outlet noted:
- earlier today, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi met with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, who acts as a mediator, to discuss formalizing a preliminary agreement between Iran and the U.S. This was followed by a trilateral meeting involving Pakistani mediators;
- this came after Al Thani's meeting with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Tuesday, where they discussed ongoing negotiations and regional developments;
- the meeting also discussed the issue of a ceasefire in Lebanon "and emphasized the importance of its stabilization," Qatar's Foreign Ministry stated;
- Qatar also stated that technical talks between Iran and the United States are ongoing, but there are currently no high-level meetings between them;
- meanwhile in Lebanon: despite the agreement brokered by the U.S. between Israel and Lebanon on Friday, the Israeli military said it struck a Hezbollah operative in the Manzala area of southern Lebanon, near the "security zone" where Israeli troops operated on Tuesday;
- Oman recently sent the U.S. and other allies a proposal for shipping companies to pay a fee for services using the Strait of Hormuz, a regional diplomat and a U.S. source familiar with the matter said;
- Iranian state media reported that a foreign container ship ran aground after failing to use a route through the strait approved by Tehran. Overall traffic on the waterway remains stable, though significantly below pre-war levels;
- Oil prices posted their steepest quarterly decline since the start of the pandemic between April and June, as traders welcomed a temporary peace deal between the U.S. and Iran and the return of some oil supplies through the strait.
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