Trump says new Iran negotiations starting: What we know

United States President Donald Trump told reporters connected Sunday that an statement with Iran is imminent and caller talks were acceptable to statesman connected Monday.

But astatine a quality league connected Monday, an Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson said: “We are not going to big a delegation oregon beryllium guests of a state during these days.”

Here is what we cognize truthful acold astir the imaginable of caller negotiations:

What has Trump said?

As helium was returning to Washington, DC, from a play successful New Jersey connected Sunday, Trump told reporters that caller negotiations were to statesman connected Monday aft calling disconnected what helium said would person been “massive strikes” connected Iran.

He did not supply immoderate details astir wherever the talks would beryllium taking spot oregon who would participate.

When reporters asked the US president if determination was a deadline for an statement with Iran, helium declined to answer.

Instead, helium responded: “Would I alternatively marque a deal? I’m not looking to termination radical due to the fact that radical die, a batch of radical die, and we don’t privation that.”

On Monday, Trump again said an onslaught that the US had planned against Iran would person been the “biggest onslaught since World War II” but helium had decided to telephone it off.

“And the woody is imminent, having to bash with the Hormuz Strait and yet the denuclearisation of Iran,” Trump said.

Are negotiations taking place, and who is taking part?

Reporting from the Qatari capital, Doha, connected Monday, Al Jazeera’s Osama Bin Javaid said that conscionable earlier Trump’s announcement, an unnamed root had hinted that mediators were acceptable to alert to Tehran, wherever an indirect dialog league would beryllium held.

Bin Javaid added that the talks would apt archetypal absorption connected ongoing discussions betwixt Iran and Oman for a woody connected power of the captious Strait of Hormuz.

He reported: “There are going to beryllium intermediaries. We’re proceeding from our sources that the Pakistani interior curate and particularly the Qataris are going to beryllium sending emissaries truthful that this tin instrumentality spot arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

“We don’t cognize the circumstantial details, but we bash cognize thing is successful the making,” helium reported.

On Monday, however, Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said: “We are not going to big a delegation oregon beryllium guests of a state during these days.” It was unclear if the spokesperson was referring to nonstop talks only, meaning that indirect talks via mediators could spell ahead.

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi said: “Indeed, Iran is talking to the Omanis. They are saying that each these talks are focused connected reopening the Strait of Hormuz and connected uncovering measures and trajectories to bash so.

“Iran is [conducting the talks] successful a bilateral way, denying immoderate imaginable overseas involution successful that regard.”

Is a bid woody truly ‘imminent’?

Trita Parsi, enforcement vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told Al Jazeera connected Monday that Trump’s repeated escalations and past cancellations of attacks connected Iran person harmed prospects for a negotiated colony to the war.

“I deliberation this has go somewhat of a tiresome pattern,” helium said.

“At immoderate point, each credibility for negotiations is going to beryllium lost. The credibility of really sticking to a woody is questionable. The credibility of immoderate incentives that are offered is questionable. And obviously, the credibility of the threats is degraded.”

Alan Eyre, a distinguished diplomatic chap with the Middle East Institute successful Washington, DC, told Al Jazeera the lone important talks taking spot close present are those betwixt Iran and Oman astir the Strait of Hormuz.

He explained that Iran has decided it is not worthy talking straight to the US due to the fact that it “can’t number connected thing the US says”.

“Nothing has changed. President Trump has promised to annihilate Iran 5 oregon six times and past backs down astatine the past minute. I deliberation it’s highly doubtful determination are talks, that he’s reaching an statement with Iran connected the atomic contented oregon the Strait of Hormuz,” Eyre said.

Charles Kupchan, a elder chap astatine the Council connected Foreign Relations, said portion helium believes a woody connected the Strait of Hormuz is achievable, a fuller bid statement connected Iran’s atomic programme and different issues remains acold much elusive.

“Do I deliberation that determination whitethorn beryllium a model for opening the Strait of Hormuz? Maybe, could be. Do I deliberation that there’s an existent statement connected the atomic issue? Absolutely not. That is acold disconnected successful the distance, if astatine each achievable,” helium told Al Jazeera.

Is a woody connected the Strait of Hormuz close?

On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said negotiations betwixt Tehran and Oman connected the aboriginal absorption of the Strait of Hormuz were successful their “final stages”, the Iranian quality bureau IRNA reported.

The captious waterway, done which one-fifth of the world’s lipid and liquefied earthy state supplies were shipped earlier the US-Israel warfare connected Iran began, has go the astir urgent contented connected the docket for talks with the US.

It was fundamentally closed by Iran successful aboriginal March aft the US and Israel began their aerial strikes connected February 28. Iran allowed fewer ships to walk done the strait until it signed a memorandum of knowing with the US connected June 17.

However, the vague wording of that statement triggered a quality implicit which routes ships should take, and Iran attacked respective ships that were pursuing an Oman-approved way done the confederate portion of the waterway. The strait was past closed again past week, and the US restarted its naval blockade connected Iranian ports.

Last week, Oman presented a connection backed by different Gulf countries for the aboriginal absorption of the strait to Iran, which rejected it and made counterproposals.

Iran’s authorities media reported connected Sunday that Araghchi had spoken by telephone with his Saudi counterpart, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, and Pakistan’s subject chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, to sermon diplomacy to resoluteness the crisis.

Baghaei said negotiations would beryllium astir agreeing connected a caller way done the Strait of Hormuz.

Baghaei added that Tehran has been holding talks with Oman “for the past 7 to 8 days”.

“Some advancement has been achieved,” helium said, adding that talks with officials from the portion and extracurricular the portion are being held arsenic well.

Why did Trump intermission strikes connected Iran, and volition warring resume?

On Monday, Trump told reporters helium called disconnected large attacks connected Iran connected Friday astatine the petition of “the 3 superior groups” – Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – which had urged him to clasp disconnected and prosecute a woody instead.

⁠Oil ⁠prices fell by much than $4 a tube aft Trump called disconnected his planned attacks connected ‌Iran’s infrastructure.

Brent crude futures slid $4.08, oregon 4.64 percent, to $83.85 per tube precocious connected Sunday portion West Texas intermediate crude was astatine $80.66 a barrel, down $4.01, oregon 4.74 percent, according to the Reuters quality agency.

However, US officials person made it wide they are inactive prepared to motorboat much attacks connected Iran.

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth repeated Trump’s assertion that the Pentagon was acceptable to onslaught Iran astatine “levels not seen since World War II”.

He added that the US remains “locked and loaded” successful an X station connected Monday.