U.K. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan Hamish Falconer has described the indirect talks between Iran and the United States held in Muscat on Saturday as the first step to reach a diplomatic solution to Iran\u2019s nuclear problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad to be in Muscat to welcome the important first step in Oman between US-Iran in seeking a diplomatic solution to Iran\u2019s nuclear problem,\u201d Falconer wrote on his X account on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stressing the limitation of time, he said, \u201cThe UK, alongside E3 partners, stand ready to support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first round of Iran-U.S. indirect talks, hosted by Oman, took place in Muscat on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi described the negotiations as \u201cconstructive and promising.\u201d Araqchi also confirmed that a second round of indirect talks with the American team would take place next week to \u201cdiscuss the framework of an agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that the next round may not be held in Muscat, but Oman would remain the mediator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Culled from IRNA<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.K. Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan Hamish Falconer has described the indirect talks between Iran and the United States held in Muscat on Saturday as the first step to reach a diplomatic solution to Iran\u2019s nuclear problem. \u201cI\u2019m glad to be in Muscat to welcome the important first step in Oman between US-Iran in seeking a diplomatic solution to Iran\u2019s nuclear problem,\u201d Falconer wrote on his X account on Monday. Stressing the limitation of time, he said, \u201cThe UK, alongside E3 partners, stand ready to support.\u201d The first round of Iran-U.S. indirect talks, hosted by Oman, took place in Muscat on Saturday. Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi described the negotiations as \u201cconstructive and promising.\u201d Araqchi also confirmed that a second round of indirect talks with the American team would take place next week to \u201cdiscuss the framework of an agreement.\u201d He added that the next round may not be held in Muscat, but Oman would remain the mediator. Culled from IRNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy-and-foreign-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24592,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24587\/revisions\/24592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}