{"id":6496,"date":"2026-02-14T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/6496\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:25:07","slug":"us-iran-talks-to-be-held-in-geneva-next-week-hosted-by-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/6496\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran talks to be held in Geneva next week, hosted by Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Switzerland said on Saturday that Oman would host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next week, with Washington pushing Tehran to make a deal to limit its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cSwitzerland stands ready at all times to offer its good offices to facilitate dialogue between the United States and Iran,\u201d a Swiss foreign ministry spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On February 6, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held talks in Oman with US envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump\u2019s influential son-in-law Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The talks were indirect, with the Omanis acting as mediators.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump has recently focused his military threats on Tehran\u2019s nuclear programme, which US forces struck last July during Israel\u2019s unprecedented 12-day war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump said on Friday that a change of government in Iran would be the \u201cbest thing that could happen\u201d, as he sent a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East, ratcheting up military pressure on the Islamic republic.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A satellite image shows the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier off the coast of St Thomas Island, US Virgin Islands, in January. Image: Planet Labs PBC via Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6e97aef6-66da-4142-b74e-ff79f1caa72a_ef96de3a.jpg\" title=\"A satellite image shows the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier off the coast of St Thomas Island, US Virgin Islands, in January. Image: Planet Labs PBC via Reuters\"\/>A satellite image shows the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier off the coast of St Thomas Island, US Virgin Islands, in January. Image: Planet Labs PBC via Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland said on Saturday that Oman would host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5352,65,3188,5353,1731,4419,4071,239,4205,2153,136,17,5354,135,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-6496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-abu-dhabi","9":"tag-geneva","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iranian-revolution","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-jared-kushner","14":"tag-kyiv","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-moscow","17":"tag-oman","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-switzerland","20":"tag-tehran","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496","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=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}