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Iran’s deputy foreign minister on Wednesday announced that indirect talks with the US in Doha had concluded. US President Donald Trump said earlier that his negotiators were making progress towards the denuclearisation of Iran following a series of “good meetings”. Read our blog to see how the day’s events unfolded.
The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran has called for for the plight of the Iranian people to be taken into account in the negotiations between Tehran and Washington.
Sato, who was refused entry to Iran by the Islamic Republic, said that international pressure on the authorities could have “concrete and real effects”.
“More generally, I believe that the authorities are always concerned about their international reputation,” she added.
The United States signed an agreement to build a new embassy compound in Jerusalem, a move that Israel said reflected the “unbreakable alliance” between the countries.
US ambassador Mike Huckabee said during a signing ceremony at Israel’s foreign ministry that Washington “recognises Jerusalem as the eternal, indigenous, and forever capital of the Jewish people”.
“We are going to plant our flag, our American flag, on the soil of Jerusalem for a permanent and a brand new embassy compound that will serve as our mothership of diplomatic activities here in Israel,” he added.
“I would say God made that decision 3,800 years ago, and we finally got around to acknowledging what had been determined long before the United States of America came along.”
The embassy will be built at the Allenby compound in southern Jerusalem.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi has announced the conclusion of talks in Doha on implementing the memorandum of understanding between Tehran and Washington on ending the Middle East war, state media reported.
The participants agreed that “a communication channel would be established by tomorrow” to report and record violations of the memorandum, the IRNA state news agency quoted Gharibabadi as saying.
The US Department of Defence’s CENTCOM sais it stands “shoulder to shoulder” with regional partners in the Middle East following a security conference with leaders from Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
A ship ran aground in the Strait of Hormuz while using a route not approved by Iran, state television in Tehran reported Wednesday. The vessel was identified as a foreign container ship, with no other details.
The report appeared aimed at underlining Tehran’s claims to control the strait, which the world has long considered an international waterway. A fifth of all oil and natural gas passed through it in peacetime.
Giant portraits of Ali Khamenei have flooded the streets of Tehran just days before the funeral of Iran’s late supreme leader, which is scheduled to begin on Saturday.
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Fans crowd Mehrabad International Airport as members of the Iranian national football team arrive in Tehran after being eliminated from the World Cup.
Click here to read more about Iran’s curtailed World Cup Campaign.
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Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed aged 86 in US-Israeli airstrikes that struck his compound in the centre of the Iranian capital on February 28, the first day of the war. Here’s what we know about the plans for his large-scale funeral, which is set to take place in cities across Iran:
Non-state affiliated news outlet Iran Observer has posted a video on social media that is says shows the preparation of a “big venue” for the funeral of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel’s defence minister has said troops will stay in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza “until further notice”, correcting an earlier statement that said the military would stay in security zones in the three countries “indefinitely”.
Israel’s military has accused a West Bank charity of cooperating with the Palestinian movement Hamas and financing armed groups after shutting down its headquarters the previous day, an allegation the organisation denies.
On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers shut down the headquarters of Al-Tadamon Charitable Society located in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
The military said its troops sealed the headquarters of the charity and “confiscated more than 55,000 shekels (about $18,000) intended to finance terrorist activities”.
President Donald Trump has said the United States was getting along very well with Iran and that recent meetings in Qatar went well.
Unions and shipping employers said in a statement that they will continue to designate the Strait of Hormuz as a warlike operations area until at least July 9, maintaining double pay for seafarers in the area despite the fragile truce.
The status only covers ships whose companies are signatories of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF)’s labour agreements — around 15,000 vessels worldwide, according to the IBF.
Seafarers covered by the labour agreement working on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and its surrounding waters get paid double, and have the right to refuse to sail into the area and request repatriation at the company’s expense, increasing costs for shipping companies.
Vessels sit in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman on July 1, 2026. © Stringer, Reuters
Talks in Doha have focused on the implementation of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Tehran and Washington, Iran’s deputy foreign minister has said, according to state media.
Heading a delegation with representatives from Iran’s foreign ministry, central bank and agriculture ministry, Kazem Gharibabadi held a meeting with Qatar’s prime minister as well as participated in a trilateral meeting between Iran, Qatar and Pakistan to review the interim deal’s implementation.
Iran will deliver an immediate and powerful response to any threat against its people or leadership, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said in an X post on Wednesday.
“POTUS has committed the US to muzzling its pets in Tel Aviv. If they ignore their master, Iran will school them,” Araqchi said.
The US and Iran held technical talks in Doha on Wednesday as they seek to agree on the flow of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and secure a lasting ceasefire, a source with direct knowledge of the talks and an Iranian official said.
Araqchi’s X post was attached to comments made by Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz stating that Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was “marked for death”.
Israel’s defence minister has said Israeli forces will remain in the so-called security zones established in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, without any timeline for withdrawal.
“The IDF will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza indefinitely in order to protect our residents and communities from jihadist elements,” Israel Katz said.
• Iran‘s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that Iran was pursuing dialogue with the United States, but remained ready for war if the “dialogue is not implemented”.
• US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met Qatari mediators in Doha on Tuesday for discussions on negotiations with Iran.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited troops in southern Lebanon, vowing that his country’s forces would stay in the area as long as Iran-backed Hezbollah remained a “threat”.
(FRANCE 24 with Reuters, AP and AFP)
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