It is part of a larger US effort to ease tensions and reduce the risk of a military confrontation with Iran. Read more at straitstimes.com.
and free imprisoned Americans, according to officials from three countries, in part of a larger US effort to ease tensions and reduce the risk of a military confrontation with the Islamic Republic.
The indirect talks, some occurring this spring in the Gulf Arab state of Oman, reflect a resumption of diplomacy between the United States and Iran after the collapse of more than a year of negotiations to restore the 2015 nuclear deal. That agreement sharply limited Iran’s activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
In return, Iran would expect the United States to avoid tightening sanctions already choking its economy; to not seize oil-bearing foreign tankers, as it most recently did in April; and to not seek new punitive resolutions at the United Nations or the International Atomic Energy Agency against Iran for its nuclear activity.
US officials have not confirmed such a linkage between the prisoners and the money, nor any connection between prisoners and nuclear matters. The renewed US focus on Iran’s nuclear programme comes amid growing concern within the Biden administration that Iran could precipitate a crisis by further increasing its uranium enrichment.
Speaking at a news briefing Wednesday, the State Department spokesperson, Mr Matt Miller, said that “rumors about a nuclear deal – interim or otherwise – are false or misleading.”
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