Oman's Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi arrived to mediate indirect talks between the U.S. and Iran for the third time on Thursday. Iran and the United States are meeting in Geneva for nuclear negotiations,

U.S. President Donald Trump briefly laid out his case for a possible attack on Iran in his State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday.

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The remarks by two Iranian officials ahead of Thursday's talks come as America has assembled its biggest deployment of aircraft and warships to the Middle East in decades, part of Trump's efforts to get a deal to constrain Iran's nuclear program.

President Donald Trump has assembled what he called an "armada" of U.S. military power in the Middle East to threaten Iran.

US and Iranian officials will meet for a third round of indirect talks in Geneva Thursday to resolve their longstanding nuclear dispute amid Donald Trump's mounting threats of a military strike against Tehran.

The United States and Iran could reach a framework for a deal if Washington separates "nuclear and non-nuclear issues", a senior Iranian official told Reuters, adding that remaining gaps need to be narrowed during a third round of talks in Geneva.

The United States sees evidence that Iran is trying to rebuild its nuclear program after U.S.-led strikes against Iranian nuclear sites in June, Vice President JD Vance