{"id":738,"date":"2026-07-02T09:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:40:34","slug":"positive-progress-as-us-tehran-wrap-up-indirect-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/2026\/07\/02\/positive-progress-as-us-tehran-wrap-up-indirect-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive progress\u2019 as US, Tehran wrap up indirect talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Qatar reports \u201cpositive progress\u201d as the US and Iran conclude indirect technical talks in Doha on issues related to the memorandum of understanding signed on June 17. Tehran says a \u201ccommunication channel\u201d will be established with Washington to report and discuss breaches of the interim deal. It also lodged a protest at the UN over Israel\u2019s latest threat against its Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei describing it as \u201cstate terrorism\u201d. Israeli forces kill five Palestinians in Gaza and continue to launch attacks on southern Lebanon despite \u201cceasefire\u201d agreements. Hazem Qassem, the Palestinian group\u2019s spokesperson, has called on the Arab League to convene an emergency meeting as Israeli politicians continue to publicly discuss forcibly displacing Gaza\u2019s entire population. Qassem said Israel\u2019s expansionist actions target not only the Palestinian people but also other Arab nations, particularly Egypt. On Wednesday, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen said the country now controls nearly 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, and intends to expand that to \u201c100 percent\u201d. Senior Chinese lawmaker He Wei will attend the funeral of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran\u2019s capital. He is the vice chairman of China\u2019s top lawmaking body, the Standing Committee of the National People\u2019s Congress. Khamenei\u2019s funeral will begin in Tehran on July 4 and conclude with his burial in his hometown, the northeastern holy city of Mashhad, \u200con July 9, Iranian state media reported. At least 5,000 more Israelis move to communities near Gaza Another 5,000 Israelis have moved to southern areas near Gaza 1,000 days after the October 7, 2023, attacks, a news report says. At least 62,000 people lived there before the Hamas-led raid, The Times of Israel reported. About 90 percent of residents have returned, and Israel\u2019s government aims to have 124,000 people living there by 2030. Israel\u2019s Tekuma Directorate \u2013 which has been \u201ctasked with rehabilitating the Gaza border area\u201d following the October 7 attacks \u2013 says it has implemented more than 1,000 projects in the area. These include \u201cstrengthening security, expanding services for community health and resilience, investing capital into agriculture, and offering incentives to factories to move to the region\u201d, according to the Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post by News Desk<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar reports \u201cpositive progress\u201d as the US and Iran conclude indirect technical talks in Doha on issues related to the memorandum of understanding signed on June 17. Tehran says a&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,109,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-international","category-pm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytherepublic.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}