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Report: Senior US officials held indirect talks with Iran in Oman this week to avoid Mideast escalation
2024-05-19
[IsraelTimes] Two senior American officials held indirect meeting with Iranian officials in Oman this week in an effort to avoid a regional escalation, according to the Axios news site.

The talks focused on "clarifying the consequences of actions by Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and its proxies in the region and to discuss US concerns regarding the status of Iran’s nuclear program," according to two sources quoted in the report.

A government official confirms to the Times of Israel that White House Middle East czar Brett McGurk and special envoy on Iran Abram Paley were in Oman this week for the talks.

McGurk was also in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...

...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat Frational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
this week, according to the same official.

Axios says it was unclear who represented Iran at the Oman talks and there was no official statement from either country.

The talks come after Iranian threats in recent weeks that Tehran will change its doctrine on nuclear weapons — currently banned under a fatwa by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...>
— if its existence is threatened by Israel.

Similar talks were held between the United States and Iran in Oman January, when reportedly Tehran asked the Biden administration to secure a ceasefire in ongoing Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
war while Washington pressed the Islamic Theocratic Republic to curb attacks by its proxies.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Tell us why we shouldn’t sink your whole navy this time.
Posted by: Super Hose   2024-05-19 14:58  

#4  Searches ongoing after Iranian President Raisi's helicopter suffers 'hard landing'
The reformist Ensaf News site cited an informed source as saying that the crash was "serious" and that there was a "high probability" of injuries in the accident.

Iranian FM, regional leaders in helicopter with Raisi
Posted by: Grom the reflective   2024-05-19 10:25  

#3  Offer another pallet of money? Bills still drying?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-05-19 08:23  

#2  ^Suck up to your enemies, spit on your allies.
Posted by: Grom the reflective   2024-05-19 02:45  

#1  Really? They have two oil terminals they use to export oil. One in the gulf and one outside. Blow them both up and only western companies know how to replace them. If they start rebuilding them, blow them up again even if western nationals are there. Send a good signal. Iran will be broke in a couple months and unable to import gasoline, food or anything else as they can't pay for it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2024-05-19 00:50  

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