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Iran’s eleventh-hour demands

While this week’s US-Iran talks were originally to be hosted by Turkey, Al-Monitor reports that Tehran lobbied at the eleventh hour to have them moved to Oman.

Iranians walk past a billboard showing Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with anti-US rhetoric in Tehran on January 27, 2026. (ATTA KENARE / AFP via Getty Images)

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