Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, met with the Steve Witkoff, US special envoy, and Jared Kushner on the sidelines of the General Assembly at U.N headquarters in New York, according to NYT, citing two Iranian officials
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- The meeting was mediated by Pakistan and Qatar, which had been pushing hard for Tehran and Washington to return to diplomacy and de-escalate the confict, the sources said.
- The discussions focused on a pathway for a deal, they said.
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- A senior source tells Al Arabiya that the US has informed the Qatari mediator of its approval of the submitted proposal; the mediators are awaiting Iran's response to the proposal after receiving it yesterday.
- "Washington has approved the draft memorandum of understanding that the Qatari delegation presented to Iran yesterday", Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reports citing sources close to the mediation team
- Qatari mediators expect feedback from the US and Iran within 36 hours on a new proposal to advance talks, according to an official briefed on the talks cited by Reuters
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