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Senior UAE official say Iran needs to reach a nuclear deal with US
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Diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emirates president Anwar Gargash arrives at the opening ceremony of the summit on peace in Ukraine, at the luxury Burgenstock resort, near Lucerne, on June 15, 2024. (Denis Balibouse / POOL / AFP)
Iran needs to reach a nuclear deal with the United States, a senior United Arab Emirates official says, ahead of talks between the two sides after repeated threats of American military action.
“Iran today needs to reach a deal,” presidential adviser Anwar Gargash says during the World Governments Summit in Dubai, adding that Iran needs “to rebuild their relationship with the United States.”
“I think that the region has gone through various calamitous confrontations. I don’t think we need another one, but I would like to see direct Iranian-American negotiations leading to understandings that we don’t have these issues every other day,” he says.
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