{"id":22589,"date":"2026-06-30T19:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/peace-prospects-promise-of-iran-us-deal-still-tentative-with-unconfirmed-doha-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:20:32","slug":"peace-prospects-promise-of-iran-us-deal-still-tentative-with-unconfirmed-doha-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/peace-prospects-promise-of-iran-us-deal-still-tentative-with-unconfirmed-doha-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace prospects: Promise of Iran-US deal still tentative with unconfirmed Doha talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>DOHA, June 30 &mdash; US envoys were meeting with Qatari mediators today in Doha to discuss negotiations with Iran, the Gulf state said, after Tehran and Washington agreed a memorandum of understanding this month to halt the Middle East war.<\/p>\n<p>Iran said a team would head to Doha this week but contradicted US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s claim that direct talks will take place.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar also said no high-level meetings or direct talks between the longtime foes were planned in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what we know about the discussions:<\/p>\n<p>&ndash; Who and when &ndash;<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted yesterday that Iran had requested fresh talks in Qatar the following day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>&ldquo;IT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW IN DOHA!&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>After his social media post, his spokeswoman told Fox News that US envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump&rsquo;s adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner &ldquo;will be flying to Doha for high-level meetings this week&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar&rsquo;s foreign ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari confirmed today that Witkoff and Kushner were in Doha, but said &ldquo;they are not here for their negotiations with the Iranians&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>They were there to &ldquo;meet with mediators, with Qatari officials, and the talks will be around all regional issues&hellip; including, of course, negotiations with Iran, but also including Lebanon&rdquo;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei, meanwhile, said on Monday that a delegation of experts would only travel to Doha &ldquo;later this week&rdquo; for discussions on the deal, not for direct US talks.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have not yet entered the stage of negotiating a final agreement,&rdquo; he said, noting that &ldquo;over the coming days, we will not have any negotiation meetings with the US side at any level&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><strong>Issues on the table&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A key issue in the accord that needs to be ironed out is Iran&rsquo;s chokehold on the strategic Strait of Hormuz, with the agreement providing for its reopening.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic in the strait dropped over the weekend after a vessel was struck while transiting the waterway on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A US official said talks were &ldquo;slated to continue on all areas of the MoU&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has also held recent talks with Oman on what it called the &ldquo;future management&rdquo; of vessels transiting the Hormuz strait.<\/p>\n<p>Another key issue for Iran is the unlocking of its funds frozen by crippling US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that the necessary steps to unfreeze these funds were &ldquo;underway&rdquo;, saying $6 billion was to be released back to the country out of $12 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Baqaei said Tuesday that talks would be held with the Qatari side &ldquo;probably tomorrow&rdquo; on the &ldquo;provision concerning the release of Iran&rsquo;s restricted assets&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fighting calms&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since the signing of the US-Iran deal, both sides have traded sporadic fire in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran&rsquo;s enforcement of its claim to the Strait of Hormuz has sparked repeated flare-ups.<\/p>\n<p>The latest came early Sunday when US Central Command said it had attacked 10 Iranian military targets over &ldquo;continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Iran said it retaliated with strikes against US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, which both condemned Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Yet those exchanges appear to have calmed in the days leading up to the talks in Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>On the Lebanon front, fighting in the war between Israel and Hezbollah has also been relatively quiet in recent days.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has insisted any deal should include an end to the parallel conflict and a withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Lebanon, part of which they have occupied.<\/p>\n<p>A lull in fighting in the country began in the days after the announcement of the Iran-US deal. &mdash; 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Iran said a team would head to Doha this week but contradicted US President Donald&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/peace-prospects-promise-of-iran-us-deal-still-tentative-with-unconfirmed-doha-talks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Peace prospects: Promise of Iran-US deal still tentative with unconfirmed Doha talks&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}