{"id":40351,"date":"2026-02-14T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40351"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:04:26","slug":"switzerland-says-oman-to-host-us-iran-talks-in-geneva-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40351","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland says Oman to host US-Iran talks in Geneva next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Switzerland said on Saturday that Oman would host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next week, with Washington pushing Tehran to make a deal to limit its nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSwitzerland stands ready at all times to offer its good offices to facilitate dialogue between the US and Iran,\u201d a Swiss foreign ministry spokesman told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>On February 6, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held talks in Oman with US envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump\u2019s influential son-in-law Jared Kushner.<\/p>\n<p>The talks were indirect, with the Omanis acting as mediators.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has recently focused his military threats on Tehran\u2019s nuclear programme, which US forces struck last July during Israel\u2019s unprecedented 12-day war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said on Friday that a change of government in Iran would be the \u201cbest thing that could happen\u201d, as he sent a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East, ratcheting up military pressure on the Islamic republic.<\/p>\n<p>Go-between<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland has played a key role in diplomatic relations between Iran and the US\u00a0for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Trump says change of power in Iran would be &#8216;best thing&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Renowned for its neutrality, Switzerland has been representing US interests in Iran since Washington broke off relations with Tehran after the 1980 hostage crisis, a year after the Iranian revolution.<\/p>\n<p>In its role as the so-called protecting power, Switzerland has for decades allowed the two feuding nations to maintain a minimum of diplomatic and consular relations.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss embassy in Tehran handles all consular affairs between the US\u00a0and Iran, including passport requests, altering civil status and consular protection for US citizens in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Under the protecting power mandate, \u201cSwitzerland can either offer to act as a go-between on its own initiative or can fulfil this function at the request of the parties concerned, provided that all those involved agree,\u201d the foreign ministry says on its website.<\/p>\n<p>The US\u00a0will be holding separate talks, also in Geneva next week, between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow and Kyiv will hold US-brokered talks on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Swiss city, both countries have said, announcing the next leg in fraught negotiations seeking to end the four-year war.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is pushing to halt the conflict, but two previous rounds of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi have not yielded signs of a breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switzerland said on Saturday that Oman would host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next week, with Washington pushing Tehran to make a deal to limit its nuclear programme. \u201cSwitzerland stands ready at all times to offer its good offices to facilitate dialogue between the US and Iran,\u201d a Swiss foreign ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40351","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=40351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}