USA wants to talk to Iran despite attacks

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USA wants to talk to Iran despite attacks – Khamenei buried

After mutual attacks between the USA and Iran, the search for a negotiated solution continues. The conflict overshadows the funeral of Iran’s supreme leader. Is Tehran planning revenge?

Despite the recent military escalation between the USA and that Iran in the dispute over the Strait of Hormuz Efforts to resolve hostilities continue. “The United States remains committed to a solution and technical discussions continue,” a US government official told the German Press Agency. Qatar, Pakistan and other regional mediators are trying to reduce tensions and revive negotiations on a nuclear deal, according to information from the US news portal Axios.

In recent days, the US military has carried out several waves of attacks against targets in Iran. This was justified by attacks on merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz, for which the USA blamed Tehran. Iran responded with its own attacks. Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordanwhich house important US military bases, are again under attack.

The Iranian leadership’s behavior represents a violation of “unacceptable proportions” against the framework agreement agreed in June, the US official told dpa. The agreement was intended to allow for a 60-day negotiation period and pave the way to a lasting settlement of the conflict.

The latest escalation overshadowed the state funeral for former Iranian head of state Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. More than four months after his killing, he was buried in camera in the Imam Reza shrine in his hometown of Mashhad in the northeast of the country, several Iranian media outlets unanimously reported that night.

The mourning ceremonies have been going on for around a week. Khamenei was killed on February 28 in an Israeli airstrike on his official residence in Tehran. For more than five weeks, the USA and Israel then war against Iran until a ceasefire was agreed at the beginning of April. Khamenei’s son Moschtaba was appointed as the new head of state in Iran, but he has not made any public appearances since then.

Like the “Wall Street Journal” and the US television station CNN Citing unnamed sources, Israel has warned the US government of Iranian plans to assassinate President Donald Trump warned. Accordingly, the leadership in Tehran only recently developed the alleged plan. The US government has recently received such warnings frequently, but the one from Israel was new and related to a specific attack plan, CNN quoted a US government official as saying.