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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke

No headway in Middle East peace efforts as US and Iran refuse to yield

Haitham bin Tariq and Abbas Araghchi shaking hands in a palatial reception room
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi (right), visits the Sultan of Oman, Haitham bin Tariq, en route to Pakistan, where he continued mediation talks without US emissaries. Photograph: Iranian Foreign Ministry/EPA

Hopes of a breakthrough in negotiations between Iran and the US faded further on Sunday, amid a deepening sense of deadlock in the nearly two-month-long conflict despite intense regional diplomatic activity.

Washington and Tehran appear unwilling to moderate rhetoric or make concessions, and there are no negotiations scheduled that might bring the war to a definitive end.

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