U.S., Iran Prepare for Talks on Strait of Hormuz
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- U.S. and Iranian officials are preparing to hold indirect talks in Qatar on Tuesday and Wednesday following days of tit-for-tat strikes that threatened to unravel the two sides’ precarious cease-fire.
- Earlier this month, the United States and Iran signed a preliminary peace agreement that included a provision to reopen the strategic waterway.
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Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S.-Iran negotiations over the Strait of Hormuz, rising anti-immigrant sentiment in South Africa, and what the next 10 years of Labour rule might look like for the United Kingdom.
U.S. and Iranian officials are preparing to hold indirect talks in Qatar on Tuesday and Wednesday following days of tit-for-tat strikes that threatened to unravel the two sides’ precarious cease-fire. Rather than focus on Iran’s nuclear program, though—as was supposed to be the priority of this week’s negotiations—the parties plan to discuss ongoing security concerns in the Strait of Hormuz.