{"id":492173,"date":"2026-02-26T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/492173\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:31:07","slug":"us-iran-live-updates-us-iran-negotiations-wrap-for-the-day-says-omans-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/492173\/","title":{"rendered":"US-Iran live updates: US-Iran negotiations wrap for the day, says Oman\u2019s foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran and the United States held indirect talks<\/a> Thursday in Geneva to try to reach a deal on Tehran\u2019s nuclear program and potentially avert another war as the U.S. gathers a massive fleet of aircraft and warships<\/a> in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Oman\u2019s foreign minister said the talks had ended but \u201cwill resume soon.\u201d There was no immediate comment from either American or Iranian officials. Analysts had been concerned that ending the talks without an immediate deal could spark U.S. military action against Iran.<\/p>\n

What to know:<\/p>\n

Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, who has been mediating the negotiations. Badr al-Busaidi wrote on X that technical-level talks would take place next week in Vienna, home to the International Atomic Energy Agency. U.S. and Iranian officials did not immediatley comment.Iran has maintained that it wants the talks to focus solely on nuclear issues, while the U.S. pushes to halt Iran\u2019s enrichment of uranium entirely. But Washington\u2019s concerns go beyond Iran\u2019s nuclear program to its ballistic missiles, support for proxy networks across the region and other issues.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and <\/a>U.S. special Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff held multiple rounds of talks last year that collapsed after Israel launched its war against Iran in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran and the United States held indirect talks Thursday in Geneva to try to reach a deal on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,12,3138,801,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-492173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-government-and-politics","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}