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Iran’s top diplomat was travelling on Sunday from Tehran to Geneva, where the second round of nuclear negotiations with the US will take place, Iranian state media reported.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his delegation left for the Swiss city after the first round of indirect talks took place in Oman last week.
Oman will mediate Tuesday’s talks in Geneva, the IRNA state-run news agency reported on its Telegram channel.
Similar talks last year broke down after Israel launched what became a 12-day war on Iran, that included the US bombing Iranian nuclear sites.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to use force to compel Iran to agree to constrain its nuclear programme. 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.
Gulf Arab countries have warned that any attack could spiral into another regional conflict.
The Trump administration has maintained that Iran can have no uranium enrichment under any detail, which Tehran says it will not agree to.
Iran continues to insist that its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes but officials have increasingly threatened to pursue a nuclear weapon.
Before the war in June, Iran has been enriching uranium up to 60 per cent purity, just a short technical step away from weapons-grade levels.
Araghchi is also expected to meet his Swiss and Omani counterparts, as well as the director general of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Earlier on Sunday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington remains interested in a diplomatic solution to ending its differences with Tehran, and that Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were currently travelling for the new round of talks.
Trump said on Friday the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, was being sent from the Caribbean to the Middle East to join other military assets the US has built up in the region. He also said a change in power in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen”.
Rubio said recent military deployments in the Middle East were a protective measure aimed at shoring up the defences of US facilities and interests.
Iran has threatened to attack US bases in the region if Washington decides to strike. Tehran in June attacked the Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, though no American or Qatari staff were harmed.
“No one’s been able to do a successful deal with Iran, but we’re gonna try,” said Rubio at a news conference after meeting Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in Bratislava. “We are focused on negotiations.”
Trump in recent weeks has suggested that his priority is for Iran to scale back its nuclear programme, while Iran has said it wants talks to solely focus on the nuclear programme.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who earlier this week met Trump in Washington, has been pressing for a deal that would neutralise Iran’s ballistic missile programme and end its funding for proxy groups such as Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Israeli prime minister said in a speech on Sunday that any deal between the US and Iran must make sure that “all enriched material has to leave Iran”.
It remains unclear how much influence Netanyahu will have over Trump’s policy on Iran. Trump initially threatened to take military action over Iran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests last month, but then shifted to a pressure campaign in recent weeks to try to get Tehran to make a deal over its nuclear programme.


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US-Iran tensions

An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US billboard in Tehran, Iran. Photo: EPA

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Photo: SOPA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

The USS Abraham Lincoln leads its strike group during a photo exercise in the Arabian Sea. Photo: US Navy via Reuters

Demonstrators raise their hands as Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah, delivers a speech in Munich, Germany, on Saturday. Photo: 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

US, Iran eye tentative nuclear talks as regional diplomacy intensifies

Women march with a sign depicting US President Donald Trump with bloodied hands in Tehran on Wednesday during a rally marking the  anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. Photo: AFP

US President Donald Trump (right) welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua

Satellite images show Iran’s Isfahan nuclear facility site on November 11, 2024 (top) and the same site on Tuesday. Photo: Vantor/AFP

Women pose with a poster depicting Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally in Tehran on Wednesday marking the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. Photo: AFP

A boy plays on a tank displayed at the Islamic Revolution and Holy Defence Museum in Tehran on Friday. Photo: AP

As part of a global day of action, people gather in Los Angeles on Saturday in solidarity with protesters in Iran. Photo: via dpa

Iranians drive past an anti-US billboard in Tehran on Saturday. Photo: EPA

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the White House on Wednesday after a meeting with US President Donald Trump. Photo: AFP

The USS Gerald R. Ford departs from Newport News, Virginia, in April 2017. Photo: US Navy via AP

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida on Friday. Photo: AP

Ahead of talks, Iran deploys ballistic missile at underground ‘missile city’

Iranian missiles displayed in a park in Tehran. Photo: West Asia News Agency via Reuters

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Talks will centre on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, as the US deploys a second aircraft carrier to the region


Talks will centre on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, as the US deploys a second aircraft carrier to the region.


Iran’s foreign minister heads to Geneva for second round of high-stakes talks with US

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Talks will centre on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme, as the US deploys a second aircraft carrier to the region