Iranian International Minister Abbas Araqchi meets with Omani International Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi in Muscat. File Photograph credit score: Iranian International Ministry through Reuters
A prime Iranian safety official will journey Tuesday (February 10, 2026) to Oman, the Mideast sultanate now mediating talks between Tehran and the US over the Islamic Republic’ nuclear programme geared toward halting a potential American strike.
Ali Larijani, a former Iranian Parliament speaker who now serves because the secretary to the nation’s Supreme Nationwide Safety Council, probably will carry his nation’s response to the preliminary spherical of oblique talks held final week in Muscat with the Individuals.
Mr. Larijani is because of meet with Omani International Minister Badr al-Busaidi, the chief middleman within the talks, and Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, the state-run IRNA information company reported. IRNA described the talks as “necessary,” with out elaborating on what message Mr. Larijani will carry.
Iran and the U.S. held new nuclear talks final week in Oman. International Minister Abbas Araghchi, talking Sunday (February 8, 2026) to diplomats at a summit in Tehran, signaled that Iran would stick with its place that it should have the ability to enrich uranium — a serious level of rivalry with U.S. President Donald Trump, who bombed Iranian atomic websites in June throughout the 12-day Iran-Israel conflict. That conflict disrupted earlier rounds of nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to journey to Washington this week, with Iran anticipated to be the main topic of dialogue, his workplace stated.
The U.S. has moved the plane service USS Abraham Lincoln, ships and warplanes to West Asia to stress Iran into an settlement and have the firepower essential to strike the Islamic Republic ought to Mr. Trump select to take action. Already, U.S. forces shot down a drone they stated acquired too near the Lincoln and got here to the help of a U.S.-flagged ship that Iranian forces tried to cease within the Strait of Hormuz, the slim mouth of the Persian Gulf.
The U.S. Transportation Division’s Maritime Administration issued a brand new warning Monday (February 9, 2026) to American vessels within the strait to “stay so far as potential from Iran’s territorial sea with out compromising navigational security.” The strait, via which a fifth of all oil traded passes, is in Iranian and Omani territorial waters. These touring into the Persian Gulf should cross via Iranian waters.
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