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Iran fires missiles, Khamenei threatens to sink US warship amid nuclear talks
As the talks began, local media announced that Iran had fired live missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz
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Iran fired live missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz while its supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that the US warship deployed in the Gulf could be sunk, amid nuclear talks between the two countries.
“We constantly hear that they [the US] have sent a warship towards Iran. A warship is certainly a dangerous weapon, but even more dangerous is the weapon capable of sinking it,” Khamenei said in a speech on Tuesday.
The US and Iran held their second round of talks about Iran’s nuclear programme on Tuesday in Geneva as Washington ramps up its military presence in the Middle East and Tehran holds large-scale maritime exercises.
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Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner flew to Geneva to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
After the talks, which ran for about three hours, Araghchi said both countries agreed on “a set of guiding principles” that would pave the way for a deal.
“Ultimately, we were able to reach broad agreement on a set of guiding principles, based on which we will move forward and begin working on the text of a potential agreement,” Araghchi told state TV after the talks in Geneva, which he described as “more constructive” than the previous round earlier this month.
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