Jerusalem, April 6 (IANS) US President Donald Trump told Israeli media that the United States is engaged in “deep” negotiations with Iran to secure a ceasefire, while stressing that Washington will not “leave in the middle” of the conflict.Trump said his administration is maintaining contacts with Iran through multiple channels, led by his advisors Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Xinhua news agency reported.According to sources briefed on the talks, communication is being conducted through two …
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New York, March 26 (IANS) With the world in the throes of an energy crisis from the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump warned on Thursday that time was running out for Tehran to “get serious” about a deal. Iran responded to the United States’ 15-point peace proposal with a five-point plan, according to the Iranian news agency Tasnim.Trump said on Truth Social that Iran “better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is no…
Washington, March 25 (IANS) President Donald Trump said the United States is in active negotiations with Iran and declared that the conflict had been “won”, even as he swore in Markwayne Mullin as Secretary of Homeland Security at the White House. Speaking to reporters after the swearing-in ceremony, Trump said talks with Iran were underway and involved top members of his administration.“We’re in negotiations, as it turned out. Now, you’ve seen what I said yesterday was exactly c…
Washington, March 24 (IANS) A series of backchannel talks helped shape President Donald Trump’s decision to pause planned strikes on Iran, according to US media reports.The Wall Street Journal reported that officials from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan were involved in closed-door discussions to find a way out of the conflict.The White House, however, refrained from giving any details. “These are sensitive diplomatic discussions and the United States will not negotiate through the…
New York, March 23 (IANS) President Donald Trump on Monday sounded optimistic about an imminent settlement of the Iran War with major points of agreement in talks, while Tehran was signalling that there were no negotiations. Trump told reporters that “we have points, major points of agreement, I would say, almost all points of agreement”, especially on the three major points on eliminating nuclear development.The remarks were greeted by a slump in oil prices and a rise in stock markets.The S…
Florida, March 22 (IANS) Ukrainian and US delegations discussed “key issues” and next steps on settling the Ukraine crisis in fresh negotiations held in the US state of Florida, Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, has said.”We continued to discuss key issues and next steps within the negotiation track. Special attention was paid to coordinating approaches for further progress toward practical results,” he was cited as saying in a report by the Interfax-Uk…
Washington, Feb 17 (IANS) President Donald Trump’s newly formed “Board of Peace” will convene in Washington this week, with member states committing more than $5 billion toward rebuilding Gaza and deploying personnel for stabilisation efforts.The meeting will mark the first official gathering of the body since its founding in January. Trump arrived at the White House Monday night, after spending the long weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.“We have the greatest leaders in the wor…
Washington, Feb 16 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said he would support Israeli strikes on Iran’s ballistic missile program if negotiations between Washington and Tehran fail, US media reported.Trump made the remarks when he met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago in Florida in December, according to a CBS News report, citing two sources familiar with the matter.US military and intelligence officials have also discussed how Washington could assist Israel in potential o…
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) The White House said US talks with Iran will take place in Oman, with President Donald Trump’s team pursuing diplomacy while insisting Tehran must accept “zero nuclear capability.”Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner “will be traveling to Oman for those talks tomorrow,” after a reporter noted the discussions had been expected in Turkey before being moved.Leavitt did not give a detailed reason for the venue change, …
Washington, Feb 4, (IANS) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday confirmed that Ukrainian and Russian technical military teams are holding direct talks with US involvement, calling the engagement an important step even as he cautioned that the most difficult issues remain unresolved.“For the first time in a very long time, we have technical military teams from both Ukraine and Russia meeting in a forum that we’ll also be involved with,” Rubio told reporters, referring to discussions …