US envoys are meeting with Qatari mediators, the Gulf state's foreign ministry spokesman said, after Washington said it was sending a negotiating team.
"Mr Steve Witkoff and Mr Jared Kushner are here in Doha to meet with mediators, with Qatari officials, and the talks will be around all regional issues," foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said.
Talks with the envoys would include discussions on Iran but also other topics including Lebanon, the spokesman said.
Iran will likely conduct talks on July 1 with the Qatari side as a mediator in the dialogue with the United States to discuss the implementation of the Iran-US memorandum and its Article 11, providing for the release of Iran's frozen assets, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Tuesday.
On Monday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian confirmed the unfreezing of $6 billion in Iranian funds held in Qatar, with the assets to be transferred to Tehran.
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Tehran will enter talks on a final agreement with Washington only after certain provisions of the Iran-US memorandum are implemented, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said.
ReplyDelete"There should be a necessity and a purpose for a meeting. If we talk about the launch of talks on a final agreement, it depends on the implementation of paragraphs 1, 5, 10 and 11 of the memorandum of understanding. We should assess the current progress in the coming days to decide when to begin talks on a final agreement," he told a news conference.
Indirect negotiations will be held tomorrow between US and Iranian delegations in Qatar in the presence of mediators, Al Arabiya sources said on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteThe sources added that the indirect talks will focus on the Strait of Hormuz and overall general stability.
The Iranian foreign ministry had said earlier that Iran will hold talks with mediator Qatar on Wednesday regarding its frozen assets, denying that any meeting with the United States was planned in the Gulf state.
ReplyDeleteIran has been subject to asset freezes and sweeping sanctions by the United States and other Western countries since its 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the US-backed Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
ReplyDeleteWhile there is no official figure for the total amount of frozen Iranian assets, media reports have estimated the sum at between $100 billion and $123 billion.