July 12 – The Islamic Republic’s acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said Tehran was still engaging in indirect talks about its nuclear program with Washington.
The discussions, which are being conducted through Oman, were reported to have been taking place by Iran’s Etemad newspaper.
The comments follow remarks by a White House spokesperson who said the US was not ready to resume talks with Iran following the recent election of Masoud Pezeshkian as the state’s President.
The US government warned Iran not to meddle in Gaza demonstrations in the US, after the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said the Islamic Republic had used operatives in America to encourage protests.
Haines said the agency had gathered evidence which showed that republic affiliated agents had posed as activists online, tried to encourage protests and provided demonstrators with financial support.
Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protests have been held across the world after the Palestinian armed group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 leaving more than 1,200 Israelis dead.
Israel, which said the act amounted to a declaration of war, responded with a military offensive in Palestine which has killed more than 34,000 people.
And a prominent legal scholar and professor at the University of Tehran has been sent to prison following a court hearing in Iran, according to a report by Mizan, the judiciary of Iran’s news agency.
The charges against Mohsen Borhani have not been announced, though he is believed to have supported the anti-government protests in the Islamic Republic and had been critical of the regime’s violent crackdowns on demonstrators during the protests.
