{"id":15851,"date":"2026-02-22T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/15851\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:39:07","slug":"us-iran-nuclear-talks-set-for-thursday-in-geneva-as-oman-confirms-mediation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/15851\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran nuclear talks set for Thursday in Geneva as Oman confirms mediation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">The United States and Iran will hold a new round of nuclear negotiations in Geneva on Thursday, Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi confirmed Sunday. &#8220;Pleased to confirm US-Iran negotiations are now set for Geneva this Thursday, with a positive push to go the extra mile towards finalizing the deal,&#8221; Albusaidi posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>Proposal Deadline<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">The announcement follows US news website Axios reporting Sunday that Washington is ready for another round only if Iran provides a detailed nuclear proposal within two days. A senior US official confirmed the planned meeting but stated the Trump administration is still awaiting Tehran&#8217;s submission, expected by Tuesday. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told CBS the proposal is being finalized to &#8220;accommodate both sides&#8217; concerns and trusts,&#8221; with Iranian leadership yet to sign off.<\/p>\n<p>Military Backdrop<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Senior US officials warned this diplomatic effort may represent &#8220;the final window&#8221; before Washington authorizes a large-scale joint military operation with Israel\u2014potentially targeting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei directly, according to Axios. President Donald Trump set a 10- to 15-day window Thursday for negotiations to yield results before military options, reiterating Friday he is considering a limited strike to pressure Iran into a &#8220;serious&#8221; agreement. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and additional fighter jets have arrived in the region, with the USS Gerald R. Ford en route.<\/p>\n<p>Oman&#8217;s Mediation<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Oman has played a key mediating role in indirect contacts, hosting the first round in Muscat earlier this month followed by a second Geneva round. The renewed diplomacy occurs amid heightened regional tensions and a significant US military buildup in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States and Iran will hold a new round of nuclear negotiations in Geneva on Thursday, Omani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[65,8002,7131],"class_list":["post-15851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-geneva","tag-role","tag-us-iran-negotiations"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15851","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=15851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}