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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Iran\u2019s<\/a> top diplomat was traveling Sunday from Tehran to Geneva, where the second round of nuclear negotiations with the U.S. will take place, Iranian state media reported.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his delegation left for the Swiss city after the first round of indirect talks took place in Oman<\/a> last week. Oman will mediate the talks in Geneva, the IRNA state-run news agency reported on its Telegram channel. <\/p>\n

Similar talks last year broke down after Israel launched what became a 12-day war on Iran<\/a>, that included the U.S. bombing Iranian nuclear sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to use force to compel Iran to agree to constrain its nuclear program. Iran has said it would respond with an attack of its own. Trump has also threatened Iran over its deadly crackdown on recent nationwide protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gulf Arab countries have warned that any attack could spiral into another regional conflict.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration has maintained that Iran can have no uranium enrichment under any detail, which Tehran says it will not agree to.<\/p>\n

Iran continues to insist that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but officials however have increasingly threatened to pursue a nuclear weapon. Before the war in June, Iran has been enriching uranium up to 60% purity, just a short technical step away from weapons-grade levels.<\/p>\n

Araghchi is also expected to meet with his Swiss and Omani counterparts, as well as the director general of the U.N.\u2019s atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.<\/p>\n

Earlier on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington remains interested in a diplomatic solution to ending its differences with Tehran, and that President Trump\u2019s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were currently traveling for the new round of talks.<\/p>\n

Trump said Friday the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world\u2019s largest aircraft carrier, was being sent from the Caribbean to the Mideast to join other military assets<\/a> the U.S. has built up in the region. He also said a change in power in Iran \u201cwould be the best thing that could happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio said recent military deployments in the Middle East were a protective measure aimed at shoring up the defenses of U.S. facilities and interests. Iran has threatened to attack U.S. bases in the region if Washington decides to strike. Tehran in June attacked the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar<\/a>, though no American or Qatari personnel were harmed. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo one\u2019s been able to do a successful deal with Iran, but we\u2019re gonna try,\u201d said Rubio at a news conference after meeting with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in Bratislava. \u201cWe are focused on negotiations.\u201d Trump in recent weeks has suggested that his priority is for Iran to scale back its nuclear program, while Iran has said it wants talks to solely focus on the nuclear program. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who earlier this week met with Trump in Washington, has been pressing for a deal that would neutralize Iran\u2019s ballistic missile program and end its funding for proxy groups such as Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The Israeli prime minister said in a speech Sunday that any deal between the U.S. and Iran must make sure that \u201call enriched material has to leave Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

It remains unclear how much influence Netanyahu will have over Trump\u2019s policy on Iran. Trump initially threatened to take military action over Iran\u2019s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests<\/a> last month, but then shifted to a pressure campaign in recent weeks to try to get Tehran to make a deal over its nuclear program<\/a>. ___ Associated Press writers Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut and Areej Hazboun in Jerusalem contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Iran\u2019s top diplomat was traveling Sunday from Tehran to Geneva, where the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5424,4644,5423,496,18,2783,65,5422,5175,3188,3288,6229,4419,5541,5588,69,6105,1824,6228,4417,2746,2788,1046],"class_list":{"0":"post-7941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-geneva","8":"tag-abbas-araghchi","9":"tag-ap-top-news","10":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","11":"tag-diplomacy","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-geneva","15":"tag-gerald-ford","16":"tag-international-atomic-energy-agency","17":"tag-iran","18":"tag-iran-government","19":"tag-israel-government","20":"tag-jared-kushner","21":"tag-marco-rubio","22":"tag-oman-government","23":"tag-politics","24":"tag-robert-fico","25":"tag-send-to-apple-news","26":"tag-slovakia-government","27":"tag-steve-witkoff","28":"tag-united-nations","29":"tag-united-states-government","30":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941","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=7941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}