{"id":86644,"date":"2026-02-18T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/iran-us-express-cautious-optimism-after-second-round-of-nuclear-talks-in-geneva\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:44:36","slug":"iran-us-express-cautious-optimism-after-second-round-of-nuclear-talks-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/iran-us-express-cautious-optimism-after-second-round-of-nuclear-talks-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, US express cautious optimism after second round of nuclear talks in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran says it&#8217;s reached an understanding with the US on the \u201cmain principles\u201d to resolve the dispute over its nuclear <!--more--> programme.<br \/>\nBoth sides expressed some optimism after a second round of indirect talks in Geneva.<br \/>\nWashington insists Tehran cannot have a nuclear weapon and warns military action is still an option if a deal isn&#8217;t made.<br \/>\nUS Vice President JD Vance told American media that Iran is not ready to acknowledge Washington&#8217;s red lines.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian repeated that Tehran is not seeking to build a nuclear weapon.<br \/>\nBut he says his country should be allowed to pursue nuclear technology for civilian purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Resul Serdar has more from Tehran, Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Mostafa Khoshcheshm is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences.<br \/>\nHe says while there&#8217;s some optimism, it&#8217;s worth waiting to see how future meetings play out.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/AJSubscribe<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us on X: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJEnglish<\/a><br \/>\nFind us on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aljazeera<\/a><br \/>\nCheck our website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/<\/a><br \/>\nCheck out our Instagram page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aljazeeraenglish\/<\/a><br \/>\nDownload AJE Mobile App: <a href=\"https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/aje.news\/AJEMobile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Geneva #UnitedStates #Iran #USIranTensions #USIranTalks #IranNuclearTalks #IranNuclearProgram #DonaldTrump #AbbasAraghchi #SteveWitkoff #IranBallisticMissiles #IranSanctions #NPT #AlJazeeraEnglish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran says it&#8217;s reached an understanding with the US on the \u201cmain principles\u201d to resolve the dispute over its nuclear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}