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The Duran Podcast

Iran-US talks, real diplomacy or attack trickery

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Iran-US talks, real diplomacy or attack trickery

The Duran: Episode 2456

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0:00.0

All right, Alexander, let's do an update on what is happening with Iran.

0:04.8

Once again, we have Trump telling the media that there are talks taking place,

0:13.1

that he's hopeful that some deal can be reached, and that Iran will accept the U.S. terms.

0:24.1

But he is also saying that there's that there could be a conflict that he's moved the powerful armada into place. They continue to move more military

0:29.8

assets into position. And when he's asked about some sort of an operation into Iran or some

0:36.4

sort of a strike into Iran in the next coming days, Trump basically says what he said about Venezuela, really.

0:43.3

We'll see. I hope the talks work out, but we'll see. I'm not going to tell you what I had planned. I'm keeping everything secret.

0:49.8

I would be it would be dumb if I were to tell you what I'm going to do. It's exactly the same stuff

0:55.4

that he was saying during the whole Venezuela thing. That's where we are. We have got in some

1:01.6

news from the Iranian side of things that they are moving towards some sort of a discussion

1:09.1

with the United States on those terms.

1:11.6

They are putting out messaging that the diplomacy is moving towards some sort of a negotiation.

1:17.6

That's coming from the Iranian side of things.

1:20.6

Where do you see this thing going?

1:22.6

It does look as if diplomatic contacts are underway.

1:28.3

We had a trip by Harmonais' national security advisor, Al-Larijani, to Moscow.

1:35.3

Al-Larijani came back and said that there's a framework for talks with the Americans,

1:40.3

so perhaps the Russians are playing some kind of role behind the scenes we don't know about.

1:46.2

There's also, as I said, all of these hints from the Iranians, more than just hints, that there

1:52.8

are meetings taking place between Iranian and American officials. There was supposed to have been

1:58.5

a series of meetings in Amman last week, which apparently failed

2:03.0

because the Iranians could not accept the American demands. And we also know that a lot of people

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