Top Iran security official to travel to Oman, site of talks with U.S., likely with nuclear message

A apical Iranian information authoritative volition question Tuesday (February 10, 2026) to Oman, the Mideast sultanate present mediating talks betwixt Tehran and the United States implicit the Islamic Republic' atomic programme aimed astatine halting a imaginable American strike.

Ali Larijani, a erstwhile Iranian Parliament talker who present serves arsenic the caput to the country's Supreme National Security Council, apt volition transportation his country's effect to the archetypal circular of indirect talks held past week successful Muscat with the Americans.

Mr. Larijani is owed to conscionable with Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi, the main intermediary successful the talks, and Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, the state-run IRNA quality bureau reported. IRNA described the talks arsenic “important," without elaborating connected what connection Mr. Larijani volition carry.

Iran and the U.S. held caller atomic talks past week successful Oman. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking Sunday (February 8, 2026) to diplomats astatine a acme successful Tehran, signaled that Iran would instrumentality to its presumption that it indispensable beryllium capable to enrich uranium — a large constituent of contention with U.S. President Donald Trump, who bombed Iranian atomic sites successful June during the 12-day Iran-Israel war. That warfare disrupted earlier rounds of atomic talks betwixt Washington and Tehran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to question to Washington this week, with Iran expected to beryllium the large taxable of discussion, his bureau said.

The U.S. has moved the craft bearer USS Abraham Lincoln, ships and warplanes to West Asia to unit Iran into an statement and person the firepower indispensable to onslaught the Islamic Republic should Mr. Trump take to bash so. Already, U.S. forces changeable down a drone they said got excessively adjacent to the Lincoln and came to the assistance of a U.S.-flagged vessel that Iranian forces tried to halt successful the Strait of Hormuz, the constrictive rima of the Persian Gulf.

The U.S. Transportation Department's Maritime Administration issued a caller informing Monday (February 9, 2026) to American vessels successful the strait to “remain arsenic acold arsenic imaginable from Iran's territorial oversea without compromising navigational safety.” The strait, done which a 5th of each lipid traded passes, is successful Iranian and Omani territorial waters. Those traveling into the Persian Gulf indispensable walk done Iranian waters.