{"id":10272,"date":"2026-02-17T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10272\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:57:12","slug":"us-and-iran-begin-high-stakes-nuclear-talks-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/10272\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran begin high-stakes nuclear talks in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second round of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/iran-says-us-stance-nuclear-issue-more-realistic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">talks<\/a> between Iran and the United States began in Geneva on Tuesday, Iranian state TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The indirect talks between Iran and the United States began today with the two sides exchanging messages&#8221; through Omani mediators, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Mediated by Oman, the discussions are aimed at averting the possibility of US military action, with Tehran expressing cautious optimism at Washington&#8217;s &#8220;more realistic&#8221; position on its nuclear programme..<\/p>\n<p>US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will take part in the negotiations, which Oman is mediating, a source briefed on the matter told Reuters, alongside Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/trump-says-he-will-be-involved-indirectly-iran-talks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> he would be involved &#8220;indirectly&#8221; in the Geneva talks and believed Tehran wanted to make a deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they want the consequences of not making a deal,&#8221; Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could have had a deal instead of sending the B-2s in to knock out their nuclear potential. And we had to send the B-2s.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second round of talks between Iran and the United States began in Geneva on Tuesday, Iranian state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[7863,7921,65,3188,4867,74,7920,6239],"class_list":["post-10272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-war","tag-geneva","tag-iran","tag-iran-us-talks","tag-united-states","tag-us-affairs","tag-us-iran-relations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}