US envoys are flying into Doha for high-level peace talks between Washington and Tehran tomorrow, after the countries halted a renewed spate of strikes over their Strait of Hormuz dispute.
Secretary of state Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff will brief the full US House of Representatives and Senate by phone on Monday on the deal with Iran, a White House official said.
“IRAN HAS REQUESTED A MEETING. IT WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW IN DOHA!” Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.
It came just hours after Tehran’s deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Monday that the technical working group meetings had not yet been planned.
Iran and the US had traded attacks in the Gulf in recent days as each accused the other of violating an interim deal signed less than two weeks ago to end their four month war.
On Sunday, Iran said its naval and aerospace forces carried out a joint missile and drone operation targeting US military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain, and warned further violations would receive a “crushing response”.
Earlier, the US military said it had struck Iran for the second day after a tanker was hit in the Strait of Hormuz.
