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Gulf mediators and Iran agree to keep talking as US strike threat looms

6 sources

Saudi, Pakistani and Turkish officials met Iranian leaders in Tehran on Monday to head off renewed US-Iran war. They left with a promise to keep talking, not a deal.

The Saudi delegation was led by Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, joined by Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir and Turkish intelligence director Ibrahim Kalin, The National reports. Regional sources told the outlet the talks made no clear headway. The visitors asked Iran to press the Houthis to stop attacking Saudi Arabia, and Iran said it lacked leverage over them. Tehran instead asked the guests to persuade Washington to accept a two-week regional pause, which would let negotiations resume in return for a gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. A second round, possibly in Turkey, has not been ruled out.

Tehran holds to its conditions

Tehran Times reports that Iran's Supreme Leader told security council secretary Mohsen Rezaei that Iran must keep control of Hormuz and that its conditions for ending the war must be met. Al Jazeera says Tehran wants sanctions relief, an end to the US naval blockade and guarantees against new attacks, while the US demands nuclear concessions first.

Trump dismisses the summer ceasefire

At a Republican campaign event in Mississippi, President Donald Trump called the ceasefire "a waste of time" and said of the war: "It'll be over soon," TASS reports.

China to send an envoy

Beijing announced on Tuesday that it will soon send an envoy to countries in the region to help avoid another escalation.

Other opinions

Tehran Times presents the meeting as proof that US threats failed to deter regional states and calls for a security order free of foreign interference. The National stresses the absence of a breakthrough.

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