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President Trump called the talks very good.

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The U.S. and Iran held preliminary talks on Friday with the aim of avoiding war.

Iran wants the talks to focus on its nuclear program. The U.S. wants much more.

NPRF has been following this story and joins us from Amman. Jane, thanks for being with us.

Thank you.

What do we know about what happened to the talks? So this was an indirect meeting in Oman in the capital Muscat. There was the

U.S. envoy, Steve Whitkoff, and President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. They were communicating with

Iran's foreign minister through Ammanani officials. Iran described the talks as

lengthy and intensive. But really the most important thing is that they met at all, because it's

really given breathing room to regional tension. Trump had threatened military strikes. Iran

had said, if that happened, it could spark regional war.

Here's President Trump speaking to reporters on Air Force One last night.

We likewise had very good talks on Iran. Iran looks like it wants to make a deal very badly. We have to see what that deal is.

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