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WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Iran must take “de-escalatory” steps on its nuclear program if it wants to make space for diplomacy with the United States, starting by cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.

The comments by spokesman Matt Miller at a briefing was the second time in recent days that the United States has criticized Iran for its decision to bar multiple IAEA inspectors assigned to the country, hindering the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s oversight of Tehran’s atomic activities.

The United States and many of its Western allies fear Iran’s nuclear program may be a cover for developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies having such ambitions.

“Iran must take de-escalatory steps if it wants to reduce tensions and create a space for diplomacy,” Miller said.

“Just in the last few weeks, we’ve seen Iran take steps to undermine the International Atomic Energy Agency’s ability to do its work,” Miller said. “So if Iran really is serious about taking de-escalatory steps, the first thing it (could) do would be to cooperate with the IAEA.”

Miller said the steps he was talking about as a potential prelude to renewed U.S.-Iran talks, whether direct or indirect, had to do with the Iranian nuclear program, though he did not provide further details.

However, asked if he was saying Iran must take all such steps sought by the United States before Washington would agree to direct or indirect talks with Tehran, he replied: “I am not saying that.”

The IAEA was responsible for verifying Iran’s compliance with the defunct 2015 Iran nuclear deal, under which Tehran curbed its nuclear program in return for the easing of U.S., European Union and U.N. sanctions.

Attempts to revive that deal, abandoned by then-U.S. President Donald Trump in 2018, collapsed about a year ago and Washington has been searching for a new way to get Tehran to restrain its program.

(Reporting By Humeyra Pamuk in Washington and by Arshad Mohammed in Saint Paul, Minn.; Writing by Arshad Mohammed; editing by Grant McCool)

BAGHDAD, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Iraq hopes to compl

BAGHDAD, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Iraq hopes to complete its first railway link with neighbouring Iran within 18 months, largely to help facilitate the transport of millions of pilgrims that visit Shi’ite Muslim shrines in Iraq each year, a senior transport adviser said.

The roughly 30-kilometre (18.64 miles) line will run between Iraq’s southern city of Basra and the Iranian border-town of Shalamja, linking nations with ties that have deepened since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, after which pro-Tehran Shi’ite Muslim parties enhanced their influence in Baghdad.

“We should see the trains moving in about 18 months because it’s a small distance,” Nasser Al-Asadi, transport advisor to the Iraqi prime minister, told Reuters.

He added the government also planned a metro link between Karbala and Najaf, the seat of Iraqi Shi’ite clergy.

Iraq and Iran fought a devastating eight-year war in the 1980s, during which much of the border area was heavily mined.

But since the U.S. toppled former leader Saddam Hussein in 2003, Shi’ite Muslim parties close to Tehran have become key political players in Baghdad and economic and religious ties between both nations have expanded.

Asadi said work was underway to clear the area before ground work could begin on the rail link.

Regularly, the world’s largest annual religious gathering of up to 20 million mostly Shi’ite Muslims takes part in the ‘Arbaeen’ pilgrimage to Iraq’s holy city of Karbala to commemorate the slaying of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed.

Many pilgrims walk hundreds of kilometres from the Iran-Iraq border to Karbala, or drive there in overcrowded cars and buses, and deadly accidents have been frequent.

ANKARA, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Turkish President Ta

ANKARA, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said the so-called Zangezur trade corridor passing through Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran must be completed, broadcasters reported on Tuesday, a day after he met Azerbaijan’s leader.

Speaking to reporters on his return flight from the Azeri exclave of Nackchivan, where he met President Ilham Aliyev, Erdogan said that if Armenia does not allow the trade corridor to pass through its territory then Iran was warm to the idea of allowing it passage through its territory.
The Zangezur corridor aims to give Baku unimpeded access to Nakhchivan through Armenia. Both Turkey and Azerbaijan have been calling for its implementation since the Second Karabakh War in 2020.

Erdogan also said all materials required by civilians in the Karabakh region were being provided by trucks after Azerbaijan’s lightning offensive to retake control of the region last week.

(Reporting by Tuvan Gumrukcu and Huseyin Hayatsever; Editing by Jonathan Spicer)

MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Russian President Vl

MOSCOW, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh in a phone call with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.

Iran shares borders with Azerbaijan and Armenia, which have disputed and fought over the region for decades. Armenians are now fleeing Karabakh en masse after Azerbaijan mounted a lightning offensive last week to bring the breakaway territory back under its control.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)

Ali Vaez (@avaezz), Project Director of Internatio

Ali Vaez (@avaezz), Project Director of International Crisis Group responds on “X” (FkA Twitter) to the SEMAFOR and Iran International articles about him: “Over the past decade, I've been called an American agent, an Iranian regime sympathizer and a British stooge.
I usually choose to dismiss such defamatory nonsense.
But on this occasion, I'm going to respond, because this is straight up hatchet journalism.”

Read the full X thread under username: @AliVaez

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