Rubio Says US yet to Decide on New Iran Strikes
Rubio said Qatar-led talks continue as Iran weighs a seven-day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and avoid wider conflict.
- On Saturday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said U.S.–Iran talks are continuing as President Donald Trump has not yet decided on launching new strikes against Iran.
- Iranian negotiators met Qatari mediators in Doha on Saturday following more than 12 hours of discussions in Tehran, with talks coordinated through regular contacts with Washington.
- Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei ordered armed forces to prepare to respond to any attacks, with senior commanders reporting high readiness along the Gulf coast and Strait of Hormuz.
- Earlier this week, Vice President JD Vance wrote to a senior Iranian security official to explore restarting talks, which the New York Times and Wall Street Journal described as an initiative to restart discussions.
- Iran has proposed a seven-day plan requiring Washington to lift port blockades and unfreeze assets, though President Trump rejected the terms, reflecting deep disagreement over reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
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Something Odd Is Happening in the Middle East: Countries in the Persian Gulf are Scrambling to Stop New Strikes on Iran
Gulf states are scrambling to head off new U.S. strikes on Iran before the midterms, with Qatar holding more than twelve hours of talks in Tehran. They fear Iranian retaliation against their bases and oil facilities, while Washington and Tehran remain split over who should make the first concession.
Last night, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that President Donald Trump had not yet taken a decision to resume attacks on Iran, and that his country would prefer to resolve the crisis with Iran peacefully and through diplomatic routes, noting that communication with Tehran was often through intermediaries. During a press conference after the G-20 Foreign Ministers' meeting in Atlanta, Rubio added that he did not know if there was a specif…
Atlanta (USA), 31 Oct (EFE).- The Foreign Ministers of the Quad, composed of the United States, Australia, India and Japan, expressed this Saturday their intention to jointly provide more than 85 million dollars in technical and financial assistance to facilitate access to artificial intelligence technologies (AI) in the Indo-Pacific region. [...] Trump's entry "has not made a decision" on resuming attacks on Iran, says Marco Rubio was first pub…
(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Park Sung-min = U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on the 31st (local time) that U.S. President Donald Trump's resumption of large-scale military operations against Iran...
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