US-Iran parallel talks in Qatar end with pledge to keep talking

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02/07/2026 - 5:00 GMT+2

US and Iran negotiators have met separately on Wednesday with Qatari and Pakistani mediators, with “positive progress made,” and agreed to continue discussions, host Qatar said.

The next meeting will be scheduled “at the earliest possible time” after the funeral of Iran’s previous supreme leader, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari said on X. The funeral is set to start on Saturday in Tehran.

US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, were in Qatar for talks aimed at securing a permanent end to the war, along with Iran’s top negotiator, Kazem Gharibabadi.