The United States and Iran are set to hold fresh negotiations in Doha on Tuesday after a weekend of military exchanges that briefly threatened to collapse ongoing talks over Iran’s nuclear programme.
President Donald Trump announced the meeting on Monday via Truth Social. “IRAN HAS REPORTED A MEETING. IT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW IN DOHA!,” he wrote.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would travel for the talks. “As far as we’re concerned, we’re holding up our end of the ceasefire.
Violence will be met with violence,” Leavitt told Fox News. “The memorandum of understanding will continue to be discussed. The ceasefire is in place, and we hope that we can get to a good deal.”
The weekend’s hostilities were triggered by Iranian attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, to which the US responded with strikes on Iranian military targets.
On Sunday, Trump threatened total destruction of the Islamic Republic if hostilities continued: “There may come a point when we are no longer able to be reasonable, and will be forced to militarily complete the job that we very successfully started. If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!”
