Officials from the United States and Iran held a new round of nuclear talks mediated by Oman in Geneva on 26 February in another attempt to avoid a major armed conflict between the long-running feuding countries.
Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who has experience brokering talks between the two sides, said he had seen “significant progress” and that technical-level discussions would take place next week in Vienna.
“We will resume negotiations soon after consultations in the respective capitals … I am grateful to all involved for their efforts: the negotiators, the International Atomic Energy Agency and our hosts, the Swiss government,” Busaidi wrote on social media X.
According to the Axios reporter, White House envoy Steve Whitkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who represented the United States in Geneva, were “disappointed” by the rhetoric of Iranian officials during the morning session of the meeting.
Neither U.S. nor Iranian officials have commented publicly on the issue.
The talks in Geneva come after Trump’s repeated threats of military action against Tehran, first over Iran’s brutal crackdown on mass protests in January and then over the country’s nuclear programme.
World powers reached a landmark nuclear agreement with Tehran in 2015 to prevent Iran from building an atomic bomb.
Western economic sanctions were relaxed at the time, but Iran began reneging after Trump, during his first term as president, withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed sanctions.