Iran & The Gulf

Iran has questioned US resolve to save the pact while Washington has said Tehran added new demands at the Doha talks in late June.

Biden's Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley said that there was a proposal on the table for a timeline by which Iran could come back into compliance with the nuclear deal and Washington could ease sanctions on Tehran.

"At this point, we are not sure if they [the Iranians] know what more they want. They didn’t come to Doha with many specifics," says a senior US official.

Iranian official tells i24News exclusively that some of the mysterious deaths among high-ranking generals in the IRGC were not the work of foreign players rather were, in fact, orchestrated by Tehran.

Brig. Gen. Ali Nasiri is said to have been arrested two months after several dozen employees of the Iranian Defense Ministry, who worked on developing its missile program, were detained on suspicion of leaking classified information to Israel. 

Blasting Arab states' normalization with Israel, Revolutionary Guards commander warns, "All those who engage in normalization with the child-murdering Zionist regime will meet a bitter end."

"Considering the continuing efforts by Qatar to help re-start talks for the lifting of US sanctions, Doha’s chances for hosting the upcoming negotiations are higher than other Persian Gulf countries," local media reports.

Gen. Mohammad Kazemi to replace Hossein Taeb, who was "promoted" to the role of special adviser to the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. IRGC also names new chief to special forces unit that secures Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.