Qatari foreign minister visits Iran days before Qatar's emir holds talks in Washington at a crucial time for efforts by Tehran and major powers to revive a 2015 nuclear pact
The visit comes after Tehran indicated that it is ready to consider direct talks with Washington if it feels it can get a"good nuclear deal".
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian in Tehran on Thursday, footage by Iran's state news agency IRNA showed."Although Doha and Tehran are experiencing good and close relations, this visit ... has fuelled some misconceptions. Some are fabricating it to facilitate direct talks with the United States," IRNA said.
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will hold talks with US President Joe Biden on January 31 including about the efforts to salvage the nuclear pact. The United States and Iran have held eight rounds of indirect talks in Vienna since April aimed at reinstating the pact that lifted sanctions against Tehran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear programme.
During that visit, he asked Qatar to broker the release of dual-national Iranian-Americans and Iranian-Europeans jailed in Iran, a person with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters this week.
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