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Israel to Expand Offensive Across Much of Gaza Strip
Hindustan Times Jammu
|April 13, 2025
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced on Saturday that the military plans to expand its ongoing offensive across much of the Gaza Strip, warning residents to evacuate from active combat zones.
MUSCAT, OMAN: The United States and Iran opened high-stakes talks on Tehran's nuclear programme on Saturday with President Donald Trump threatening military action if they fail to produce a deal.
The two sides entered "indirect" talks — via an intermediary — in the Omani capital Muscat, Iran's foreign ministry said. The Americans had called for the meetings to be face-to-face.
Disagreement over the format indicated the task facing the long-term adversaries, who are seeking a new nuclear deal after Trump pulled out of an earlier agreement during his first term in 2018.
Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is leading the Iranian delegation while Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff heads the US team.
"Our intention is to reach a fair and honourable agreement from an equal position," Araghchi said in a video posted by Iranian state TV.
Signs of progress could help cool tensions in a region aflame since 2023 with wars in Gaza and Lebanon, missile fire between Iran and Israel, Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping and the overthrow of the government in Syria.
This story is from the April 13, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Jammu.
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