{"id":3605,"date":"2026-10-31T23:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T18:03:50","slug":"iranian-envoys-meet-qatari-mediators-as-threat-looms-of-us-strikes-after-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3605","title":{"rendered":"Iranian envoys meet Qatari mediators as threat looms of US strikes after midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian negotiators held talks in \u200bDoha with Qatari mediators on Saturday to discuss paths out of war in the Gulf, a source told Reuters,<\/em> as diplomats \u200ctry to avert a new outbreak of fighting after the US midterm elections this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s talks in the Qatari capital followed more than 12 hours of discussions on Friday between Iranian and Qatari envoys in Tehran, said the source, who was briefed on the negotiations and spoke on condition of anonymity. The source said the talks were \u200bbeing coordinated in regular contact with Washington.<\/p>\n

Countries in the region have been anticipating that US President Donald Trump, who has held off \u200bon strikes on Iran during the weeks leading up to Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections, could restart attacks once the \u2060voting is over. Iran has repeatedly said it would respond to new attacks by striking at US and Israeli targets in neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ayatollah \u200bMojtaba Khamenei issued a statement on Saturday ordering the armed forces to be prepared to respond to any attacks. The Iranian military later announced it was taking steps to \u200bimprove its readiness.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny level or type of threat must be met with an immediate, impactful, and geographically unrestricted response,\u201d Khamenei, who has not appeared in public since replacing his father, killed at the war\u2019s outset, said on Saturday in the statement posted on his official Telegram account.<\/p>\n

He said that senior commanders had reported high readiness along the \u200bGulf coast, in and around the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman, and on Iran\u2019s northwestern and southeastern borders.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Diplomacy continues despite gaps<\/h3>\n

Trump, who \u200blaunched the war alongside Israel in February, has repeatedly hinted at plans to restart strikes on Iran. Last week he called on Israelis ahead of their own election \u200cto keep \u2060his wartime ally Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power so the two leaders can \u201cfinish the job\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Washington has also lately taken steps to indicate it is open to diplomacy. Earlier this week, Vice President JD Vance, who led the US delegation at previous rounds of talks with Iran, wrote a letter to a hardline senior Iranian security official, which the New York Times and Wall Street Journal described as an initiative to see if it \u200bwas possible to restart talks.<\/p>\n

Trump played \u200bthe letter down, saying he approved \u2060it only to discuss the possibility of letting more medical supplies into Iran: \u201cI said if you want to do that, that\u2019s ok. Basically, it\u2019s getting supplies in to help people that are not well.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latest Qatari-mediated discussions, \u200bthe Qataris brought a proposal to Tehran a week ago for a seven-day plan, under which the US and Iran would \u200btake daily steps to \u2060build trust ahead of broader peace talks, the source briefed on the negotiations said. A senior Iranian official told Reuters on Friday that this proposal was not deemed satisfactory by Tehran.<\/p>\n

Iran has been proposing its own seven-day plan since September, so far rejected by Trump. That calls for Washington to lift a blockade \u2060of Iranian \u200bports, unfreeze assets and approve an Iranian-backed route through the Strait of Hormuz, after which \u200bthe contested strait would be reopened.<\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in remarks reported by Al Jazeera<\/em> on Saturday that Iran was studying Vance\u2019s letter. He said the Iranian plan was the \u200bonly proposal on the table to reopen the strait.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian negotiators held talks in \u200bDoha with Qatari mediators on Saturday to discuss paths out of war in the Gulf, a source told Reuters, as diplomats \u200ctry to avert a new outbreak of fighting after the US midterm elections this week. Saturday\u2019s talks in the Qatari capital followed more than 12 hours of discussions on Friday between Iranian and Qatari envoys in Tehran, said the source, who was briefed on the negotiations and spoke on condition of anonymity. The source said the talks were \u200bbeing coordinated in regular contact with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}