{"id":310833,"date":"2026-02-26T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/310833\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T07:03:09","slug":"u-s-and-iran-to-resume-nuclear-talks-in-geneva-amid-heightening-military-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/310833\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Iran to Resume Nuclear Talks in Geneva Amid Heightening Military Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Here are Wednesday&#8217;s key updates in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East:<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Indian <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-politics\/2026-02-25\/ty-article\/.premium\/indias-modi-addresses-knesset-as-session-turns-flashpoint-for-political-clashes\/0000019c-957d-dfa9-a7bd-d7fd17a20000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a> addressed the Knesset, noting that India is &#8220;committed to expanding trade, strengthening investment flows and promoting joint infrastructure development&#8221; with Israel. Opposition parties boycotted the Knesset session but attended Modi&#8217;s speech.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 <a class=\"x1bvjpef x41m6fz xly1mqq x1k57tk5 x1i43xu1 xx6stda x15spe28 x1wntsoc xj69yco xfw692k xg830sg x13dflua xfagghw xz4gly6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-security\/2026-02-25\/ty-article\/official-to-afp-hezbollah-wont-step-in-if-u-s-conducts-limited-iran-strikes\/0000019c-95cc-d981-a1be-97fead0d0000\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hezbollah will not take action<\/a> if the United States carries out limited strikes against Iran, a pro-Iranian official told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Germany&#8217;s foreign \u200cminister said at a press conference that \u2060Iran must commit to negotiations with the United States to \u200cstop support for \u200carmed proxy groups such as Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 A Gaza construction firm has been contracted to build an Emirati-funded housing compound for tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in a part of the territory under Israeli military control, two Israeli officials and two Palestinian businessmen told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said that it is worth it for the U.S. to invest in security aid to Israel. Speaking at a Knesset event hosted by the Israel-U.S. lobby on Wednesday, he emphasized that the $3.8 billion annual aid package generates &#8220;hundreds upon hundreds of good-paying jobs&#8221; in the American defense industry.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Iran&#8217;s negotiating delegation, \u200cled by Foreign \u200cMinister Abbas Araghchi, has left Tehran \u2060for Geneva to take \u2060part in a third round of nuclear negotiations on Thursday, state media reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 Turkey is actively evaluating potential measures it could take if a conflict erupts between its neighbor Iran and the United States, a Turkish diplomatic source told Reuters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">\u25a0 U.S. Vice President JD Vance told Fox News&#8217; America&#8217;s Newsroom, &#8220;you can&#8217;t let the craziest and worst regime in the world have nuclear weapons,&#8221; ahead of nuclear talks between Iran and the United States in Geneva on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are Wednesday&#8217;s key updates in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East: \u25a0 Indian Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,50,42,99446,92,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-310833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-iran-u-s","12":"tag-iran-nuclear","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}