New YorkIranian officials held three hours of direct talks with Witkoff.
Tehran is offering to reopen a strait carrying a fifth of world oil shipments.
A senior Iranian official said Qatari diplomats mediated the talks after Tehran eased seven earlier preconditions for ending the US blockade.
Trump asked the same assembly hours later whether to “annihilate” Iran or help it “become a great country.”
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is expected to meet Witkoff again soon, though hardline Iranian media disputes the offer.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 600+ reports worldwide
- The Guardian
- signals Iran's shift from seven preconditions to week-long timeline contingent on US reciprocal easing
- Hindustan Times
- RT leans critical
- frames as 'US-Israeli war' and quantifies Strait closure impact (disrupted ~20% of global energy shipments)
- The Times of Israel leans favorable
Sources: The Guardian, Hindustan Times, RT, The Times of Israel