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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Dubai

Oman claims Israel pushed US into Iran war when deal was possible

Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff and Badr Albusaidi sitting around a round table
Jared Kushner, left, and Steve Witkoff with Badr Albusaidi, right, the Omani foreign minister, in Geneva on 26 February. Photograph: Omani foreign ministry/AFP/Getty Images

Oman’s foreign minister has claimed the US has “lost control of its own foreign policy” and accused Israel of persuading Donald Trump’s administration to go to war with Iran – a conflict he described as a “catastrophe” and a “grave miscalculation”.

Writing in the Economist, Badr Albusaidi, the Omani minister who mediated the latest nuclear talks between Iran and the US, offered an unusually damning assessment of events leading up to the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran and the war it has triggered across the Middle East.

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