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2 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Officials from the Gulf states are “braced for the worst” as they wait for Washington’s response to an Iranian proposal that could reopen the strait of Hormuz before the US midterm elections on Tuesday.
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that → brace → Tuesday
Indirect talks in Doha ran into a third day on Sunday with Qatar trying to negotiate the release of more than $6bn in Iranian assets, which could lead to the reopening of the strait of Hormuz and the restart of negotiations on Iran’s nuclear programme.
The United Arab Emirates envoy Anwar Gargash said another round of escalation was not in the interests of Iran or any of its neighbours.
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round → run → neighbours
He said: “We are also, as we have shown before, braced for the worst.”
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we → say → worst
He added: “Relations with Iran are essential, because Iran is our neighbour and we do not want to see it get caught up in a prolonged crisis.”
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it → add → crisis
Qatar’s mediation continued despite unidentified missiles striking a Pakistan-bound Qatari LNG tanker near the strait of Hormuz on Friday.
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missiles → continue → Friday
The attack came despite the ship receiving direct clearance and safe-passage approval from Tehran just hours earlier.
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ship → come → Tehran
In a bid to overcome the lack of trust on both sides, Qatar has been focusing its efforts on reaching an agreement for a plan to compress the process by which the US lifts sanctions and then Iran reopens the strait of Hormuz and starts nuclear talks.
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Iran → overcome → talks
Iran has agreed to cut the timetable from seven to two days.
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Iran → agree → days
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said he hoped the US would choose “diplomacy over other paths”.
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US → say → paths
He said Iran was ready for both defence and diplomacy, depending on Washington’s “rationality”.
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Iran → say → rationality
Araghchi said there were currently no plans for direct talks with Washington.
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Araghchi → say → Washington
Araghchi has not been attending the mediation in Doha and is due to go to Turkmenistan on Monday, but other Iranian diplomats are heavily involved.
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diplomats → attend → Monday
Donald Trump said on Saturday the US had knocked out much of Iran’s military but still had to “take care of” one or two targets, as Tehran warned of reprisals if attacked.
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Tehran → say → reprisals
He maintained that negotiations with Iran to end the war, started by the US and Israel in February, were “going fine but you know they’re not very reliable”.
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they → maintain → February
Earlier on Saturday, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said the US was open to a diplomatic solution, while Iran’s security chief, Mohsen Rezaei, disclosed that he had received a letter from the US vice-president, JD Vance, seeking to revive talks.
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he → say → talks
Rezaei noted what he described as a positive change in “tone” from the US side but said he had yet to respond.
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he → note → side
Speaking to Al Jazeera on Saturday, Araghchi said Iran had offered to open the strait of Hormuz within two days of the US acting to lift the blockade on oil ships, stop blocking the release of Iranian assets and end sanctions on Iranian oil exports.
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US → speak → exports
Ali Nikzad, the deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament, once again signalled that Tehran would be unwilling to discuss its nuclear programme, saying: “Our enemies must understand that the Iranian nation has made a decision not to negotiate on the nuclear issue under any circumstances or under any pressure.
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nation → signal → pressure
This great nation gave its enemies enough opportunity to negotiate in this area, but was faced with repeated breaches of promises and illegal bombing of part of peaceful nuclear facilities.”
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nation → give → facilities
Rezaei claimed Trump was being hounded by a war that he claimed was having wider international repercussions than the Vietnam war.
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he → claim → war
He told Iranian TV on Saturday: “Today, wherever Trump goes, he must answer why he started the war against Iran.
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he → tell → Iran
There is no family in America that has not endured the pressure caused by the war in Iran.”
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that → be → Iran
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