Nov. 7 – Iran’s government said it had received communications signaling a desire to resume talks about its nuclear program after foreign media reports suggested that Washington had shared a proposal to resume such talks through Oman.
A spokeswoman for President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration said a message about the talks had been received but did not confirm who had sent the communication.
Iran and the US had been engaged in diplomatic discussions about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program before a war in June launched by Israel against Iran in which several of its nuclear sites were damaged.
Israel’s President Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was prepared to take further action against Iran-aligned proxy groups in Lebanon and Yemen, following an Israeli offensive against Hezbollah on the Lebanese border.
Israel has continued to target armed groups in the Middle East, which it says represent a threat to the country’s security.
The ongoing military action has raised fears that it may reignite the conflict in the region following a ceasefire in November last year.
And Australian lawmakers said they were a step closer to listing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, as a bill to list foreign state entities as sponsors of terrorism passed through the senate on Thursday.
The legislation was introduced by Australia’s Labor Party after the government received credible intelligence that the IRGC was behind two anti-Semitic attacks in Australia.
The IRGC is currently listed as a terrorist organization in the U.S. and Canada.
