Pompeo dismisses Rouhani’s terms for talks as Iran admits ‘no plan B’ for Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Jun 26, 2020

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington, DC on June 24, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) — US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press conference at the State Department in Washington, June 24, 2020. — MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Rouhani, Biden hint at pathways to resume Iran deal

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Syrian demonstrators look at a poster bearing the portraits of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (C-R) and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (C) in the central Saadallah al-Jabiri square in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January 7, 2020, to mourn and condemn the death of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani (portrait-L), and nine others in a US air strike in Baghdad. (Photo by - / AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran hunkers down in Syria after Caesar Act sanctions

Ali Hashem

In Doha, reporting on Iran, regional politics, conflict

Khamenei claims US is anti-Iran and anti-Shiite

Arash Karami

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif walks with Iranian professor Massoud Soleimani as he arrives at Mehrabad airport, in Tehran, Iran December 7, 2019. West Asia News Agency (WANA) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY - RC2JQD93R47U

Will Iran take up Trump’s offer to ‘make a deal together’?

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