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U.S.-Iran Talks Up To A ‘Good Start’
The first round of new talks between Iran and the United States in Muscat, Oman, has ended with satisfying results.
U.S. President Donald Trump very much needs the talks to chicken out from his threats to again attack Iran. Any attack on Iran would be retaliated for with missile which would cause massive damage to U.S. and Israeli assets.
There had been a little drama about the location, configuration and content of the meeting.
The U.S. at first insisted on talks in Turkey. It wanted the foreign ministers of other Middle Eastern countries to take part in them. It demanded to negotiate about nuclear issues, ballistic missiles, Iranian support for local militia and about the recognizance of Israel by Iran.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the talks needed to include ballistic missiles, Iran’s aligned militias and its treatment of its own people “in order for talks to actually lead to something meaningful.”
Iran rejected all of the conditions Rubio tried to make.
It wanted to limit the talks to the nuclear issue and sanctions relief. It did not like Turkey, which is neither neutral nor a friend of Iran, as the host of the talks and preferred Oman as it traditionally following a neutral foreign policy. Iran also rejected the participation of other Middle Eastern countries as these would likely be under U.S. pressure to gang up against Iran.
Some Middle East countries, interested in preventing another war in their region, intervened with President Trump:
Fearing that talks about Iran’s missiles and regional proxies could cause an immediate impasse, other countries in the region have been pushing for the session to focus on Iran’s nuclear program, two Middle Eastern diplomats said.
They urged to accept Iran’s conditions and the U.S. conceded to them.
The talks held today were indirect. Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Al Busaidi shuffled between the rooms to convey each parties position.
Badr Albusaidi – بدر البوسعيدي @badralbusaidi – 14:15 UTC · Feb 6, 2026
Very serious talks mediating between Iran and the US in Muscat today.
It was useful to clarify both Iranian and American thinking and identify areas for possible progress. We aim to reconvene in due course, with the results to be considered carefully in Tehran and Washington.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi informed the Iranian press about the results:
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the new round of indirect nuclear talks with the United States in the Omani capital Muscat was a “good start” and can be continued.
“The decision on how to proceed with the negotiations will be made after consultations with the capitals,” he told IRIB following the conclusion of the Omani-mediated talks on Friday.
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During some six hours of talks, several indirect meetings and rounds of consultations were held and Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Al Busaidi played an “active” role in hosting and conveying the messages and viewpoints of both sides, said Araghchi.
“During these talks, [which took place] after a long period of interruption, Iran’s positions and concerns were fully conveyed and our interests, the rights of the Iranian people, and all matters that needed to be stated were conveyed in a very positive atmosphere, and the views of the other side were also heard,” he explained.
Other Iranian media report that Araghchi during the talks insisted on continued enrichment in Iran and that neither side budged on their previously stated positions.
After consultations with the capitals a new round is likely to take place in a week or so.
For some intriguing (or stupid) reason the U.S. delegation, led by Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, included Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East. The Iranian delegation was purely civilian and certainly not impressed by some uniformed man sitting in a room away from theirs.
I have yet to see ‘leaks’ or rumors from the U.S. side of the negotiations.
There are many people around the White House, i.e. Marco Rubio, and in Israel who do want the talks to fail. They will do their best to portrait the Iranian position as unreasonable and to press for and immediate end of the negotiations.
But Trump needs a way out. Any new conflagration in Middle East could easily turn into a months long disaster with significant U.S. casualties. The political aftermath of such a fight would likely ruin his presidency.
‘OK I believe there are plenty of perverts who keep boys for sex and that might swing to murder, but I am reluctant to mix these sort of allegations into politics.’
‘The Franklin Scandal’ in the 1980’s involved mostly boys, teens and young men though there were girls involved as well.
It is somewhat surprising here with Epstein that there doesn’t seem to be any boys-men to satisfy the gay pols and power players but it’s really about power with these people including and perhaps most especially with regard to the whole ‘sex thing.’ Gay dudes will screw women.
Former female porn ‘actresses’ will tell you that a solid half the guys in porn or even more are probably gay. Or bisexual. Like Barack Obama.
Remmeber what Sharon Stone said about cocaine and sex in that movie where she spreads her legs?
And she wasn’t even smoking it.
But I digress.
The Epstein parties don’t appear to be as drug-riddled as The Franklin network was back then or the Diddy network was more recently.
Ain’t nothing like a Diddy party!
I wonder why LeBron James would say that? Perhaps Sean Combs had the best caterers.
And, speaking of athletes and getting back to the thread topic at least a little bit – did you see what that weasel Steph Curry has been up to vis-a-vis the genocidal entity?
https://israelpalestinenews.org/stephen-curry-zionist/
Steph Curry’s long-time coach – and the man who famously hit the shot that Michael Jordan passed on in the championship – his coach is Steve Kerr.
And Kerr’s father was killed in Lebanon where the younger Kerr spent much of his early childhood and teen developmental years. Kerr apparentlu had met some Marines who were killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings.
The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing was a Zionist false flag operation intended to pull the US further into the Middle East on behalf of the genocidal entity.
Reagam – a gay man they plucked out of Hollywood and who was probably compromised by Roy Cohn among many others – Reagan apparently was furious and put an end to things though whether he knew it was the Zionists is uncertain.
Anyway, maybe if the information about the genocidal entity and its machinations were brought to the attention of Kerr and he was made aware that his father would never have been killed in the first place if it weren’t for the genocidal entity and then maybe he could talk to Curry and Curry would see the immoral error of his ways and announce to the world after the next game that he’s no longer going to invest in any ‘Israeli’ anything and we shouldn’t bomb Iran on their behalf either.
Imagine that.
https://archive.ph/hDE9c#selection-3717.0-3907.1
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 6 2026 22:36 utc | 109
‘this is why there is so much censorship going on with the Epstein files in order to hide certain names that have now become even better known over the years, already in influential positions, or involved in politics.’
I agree George. Look at the lengths they are going to and then the circles they end up talkin in because it’s all just such a blatant lie.
‘In an appearance with Laura Ingraham on Fox News Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche indicated that no charges or investigations would be forthcoming, claiming bizarrely that it was “not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.”
Ingraham asked whether there was “any chance any of these individuals who partied with Epstein and engaged in relations with minors will be prosecuted. Any chance?”
Blanche replied, “Well look, I’ll never say no. And we will always investigate any evidence of misconduct, but as you know it is not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein. And it’s not a crime to email with Mr. Epstein. And some of these men may have done horrible things, and if we have evidence that allows us to prosecute them, you better believe we will.
But it’s also the kind of thing that the American people need to understand, that it isn’t a crime to party with Mr. Epstein. It isn’t a crime …”
Ingraham interjected, “Didn’t look like that was all that was going on in some of those photos. I mean, if the photos could speak, some of them look pretty bad.”
Blanche replied, smiling, “That’s right, and unfortunately photos can’t speak, so we need witnesses.”
In the same interview, Blanche acknowledged that “mistakes were made” when it came to redacting victims’ names and pictures but claimed the department was doing “everything to protect victims.”
The day before, in a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Blanche downplayed any possibility of investigations stemming from the files.
“There’s a lot of correspondence. There’s a lot of emails. There’s a lot of photographs. There’s a lot of horrible photographs that appear to be taken by Mr. Epstein or people around him. But that doesn’t allow us necessarily to prosecute somebody.”
In a separate interview on ABC’s This Week, Blanche said the Justice Department was finished with its review of the documents. “We reviewed over six million pieces of paper, thousands of videos, tens of thousands of images,” he said.
Blanche’s insistence that there is apparently nothing to investigate came just three days after he publicly stated, while announcing the latest release, that any:
“depiction of CSAM, or child pornography, was obviously excluded. Anything that would jeopardize an active federal investigation and finally anything that depicts or contains images of death, physical abuse, or injury also not produced.”
In reality, Trump’s Department of Justice has released at least 40 images of nude women, possibly underage. At the same time, the files have the names and email addresses of people corresponding with Epstein about procuring children and young women for sex blacked out, along with many mentions of Trump.’
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/02/06/zxgp-f06.html
This Blanche douche actually says he can’t interview a picture as a witness when there are in fact seemingly countless numbers of people he can be subpoenaing to testify.
He has the power of subpoena for chrissake.
Everything is a blatant in-your-face lie.
With a smile.
Posted by: Dan Kelly | Feb 7 2026 3:24 utc | 157
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