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Iran’s president brings receipts of US strikes on civilians to the UNGA
Iran’s president delivered his UN General Assembly address after US President Trump threatened to ‘annihilate’ Iran.
Israel moves to bar both main Arab lists from October election
Excluding Ra'am and the Joint List leaves Palestinian citizens in Israel without major Knesset representation options.
Ukraine War Entering ‘Dangerous New Phase’ as Attacks Intensify, Risk of Regional Spillover Grows, Political Affairs Chief Warns Security Council
Nearly five years into the war, the Russian Federation and Ukraine face a stark choice: a wider conflict or a deliberate turn towards peace, the United Nations political affairs chief told the Security Council today, urging renewed diplomatic efforts towards an immediate, full and unconditional ceasefire.
Lavrov discusses explosive situation in Persian Gulf with Arab League chief
The sides also discussed the crisis situations in the area of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Lebanon and Syria
Iran war live: Tehran says it won’t be bullied, remains open for talks
Iranian president says Tehran will not bow to pressure while remaining open to dialogue in a defiant UN speech.
Lavrov, Lebanese prime minister discuss developments in Middle East
Russia reaffirmed its principled position in support of the unity, territorial integrity and sovereignty of this friendly country
US aviation sanctions disrupt Iran flights, push travellers overland
Travel disruptions intensify as Iranian airlines lose access to airspace, pushing civilians towards costly land routes.
8 sailors assigned to U.S. carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy says
Aircraft on the deck of the US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it docks for a rest stop at Laem Chabang Port, Thailand, on September 3, following a long deployment in the Middle East. - Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains discussion of suicide. Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the US, call or text 988 for help. The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact information for crisis centers around the world. Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier set a modern record for its time at sea, according to a letter from the service’s acting secretary, which was obtained by CNN. Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao revealed the number, which has not been previously reported and covers crew members from several ships that travel together, including the carrier, in written responses to questions posed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand about the morale and mental health of the USS Abraham Lincoln’s crew. Cao wrote that no service members had killed themselves during the deployment. The rate of suicide attempts among the Lincoln strike group’s sailors was roughly consistent with that of the entire active duty Navy in 2024, the most recent year for which the Pentagon has released suicide data. That year, the Navy saw 356 suicide attempts among its estimated 337,000 active duty sailors. “Since the beginning of Lincoln’s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group,” Cao wrote to Gillibrand, a Democrat and member of the Senate Armed Services, in a letter dated Tuesday. “This number includes the Lincoln crew and sailors from the carrier airwing, strike group and destroyer squadron staff, escorting destroyers and all embarked aviation squadrons.” Between 6,000 and 7,000 US Navy sailors were deployed as part of the Lincoln strike group across roughly a half dozen ships — with the carrier kept out of port for over six months while conducting a high rate of combat operations against Iran. “Eight attempted suicides is incredibly high,” one US military official told CNN, noting recent carrier strike group deployments have had one or two per year. “The strain of combat ops is much higher than normal deployments. No port calls, constant alerts, etc.” The Navy did not respond ahead of publication to a request for comment about the letter. The Lincoln deployed with various mental health resources onboard, including five chaplains, one embedded integrated prevention counselor, one psychologist, one clinical social worker, three behavioral health technicians and one expeditionary facility dog, according to Cao’s letter. CNN previously reported that two sailors assigned to the Lincoln strike group, one from the carrier and one from another ship, had jumped overboard in recent months. Both were rescued, US officials said. Others were prevented from jumping, according to reports from the Navy Times and Stars and Stripes. In his letter to Gillibrand, Cao also confirmed that a sailor assigned to the airwing went overboard from the ship in early August but was “quickly recovered” and treated by the Lincoln’s medical department. “Additionally, one sailor attempted to go overboard in March and was stopped by his shipmates. That sailor was also provided immediate medical care and subsequently returned to homeport.” The Navy previously said in a statement to CNN, “We have not observed an increase in suicidal ideations or attempts aboard the ship. We take every service member’s well-being seriously and have religious, medical and mental health professionals available to assess and address concerns as they arise.” A US official also previously told CNN that the Navy does not believe there is a correlation between deployment length and thoughts of self-harm, and that man overboard incidents are not unique to this group. A crew member serving on the Lincoln previously described to CNN that morale on the carrier was very low and said they had heard repeatedly about suicidal ideation by fellow crew members. And there were regular strains on essential amenities — toilets and water fountains around the ship frequently closed, and hot water was often unavailable, the crew member said. “Everyday we wake up and listen to our captain speak, we are desperately hoping and anxious for updates on our return,” the crew member, speaking before the ship had been ordered to return to its home port in San Diego, told CNN. The ship left the Middle East in August and is expected back in San Diego in the coming weeks. Other sailors aboard the Lincoln who spoke with CNN described conditions unlike their prior deployments, largely due to the combat that has kept the carrier from making stops at friendly ports. Ships can take on new supplies and allow their sailors to rest and relax during those port calls. CNN’s Davis Winkie contributed to this report For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at CNN.comThis article originally appeared on CNN at https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/politics/eight-sailors-lincoln-carrier-group-iran-war-attempted-suicide
Over 400 ships pass through Bab el-Mandeb in 10 days, Houthis say
The Ministry of Transport and Public Works in the Houthi-formed government said that navigation "is proceeding smoothly and safely for international commercial vessels, with the exception of Saudi Arabian ships"
Gaza flotilla activist on hunger strike in Tunisia jail ‘on verge of death’
Wael Naouar has been hospitalised as his hunger strike enters its 39th day, the Gaza Sumud Flotilla says.
Lavrov, Egyptian foreign minister discuss Persian Gulf crisis — Russian MFA
The sides also discussed the need to maintain the strong momentum of political dialogue and expand trade and economic cooperation
Israeli soldier wounded in car-ramming attack in occupied West Bank
Israeli soldier Neria Leiter wounded in a suspected car-ramming attack near the illegal settlement of Beit Horon.
Iran threatens countries enforcing US airline sanctions
Iran has threatened countries enforcing US sanctions on its airlines, warning that their airports could face disruptions
Quest for lasting peace, but no pauses in special operation — Lavrov’s remarks
UNITED NATIONS, September 23. /TASS/. Russia will not make pauses in the special military operation to negotiate with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. Ukraine could have remained within the borders of 1991, if Europeans hadn’t engaged in fraud, the minister added. TASS has gathered key remarks by the top Russian diplomat. Readiness to negotiations on Ukraine Moscow is ready for talks on Ukraine to achieve a solid peace: "Russia, as [President Vladimir] Putin has repeatedly confirmed, is ready for negotiations to achieve precisely such a lasting and just peace." "As [US President] Donald Trump said in August 2025 after the meeting in Anchorage, everyone agrees that what is needed is not some ceasefire deal, but a long-term peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine that would reliably end the war." US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have recently confirmed the United States’ interest in a Ukrainian settlement: "During their recent visit to Moscow, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner confirmed that Washington remains interested in facilitating a Ukrainian settlement." Continuing special operation Russia will not suspend its special military operation for any negotiations with Ukraine: "Having learned from bitter experience, we will not pause the special military operation for the duration of negotiations in any format." Europe wants a pause so that it could replenish Ukraine’s arsenals: "Although this is precisely what Europe wants, all with the same simple goal: to gain a respite and replenish the depleted military arsenals of the Kiev regime, which, out of desperation, has long since resorted to openly terrorist methods." Europe’s cheating Ukraine could have remained within the borders of 1991, if Europeans hadn’t engaged in fraud, but they failed to suppress their "eternal instinct to lie" and try to achieve their goals through criminal methods: "If Europeans hadn’t resorted to fraud and had forced the opposition to comply with the agreement signed in February 2014 under the guarantee of Berlin, Paris, and Warsaw, it would have preserved Ukraine’s territorial integrity within the very borders of 1991 that [Vladimir] Zelensky and his Western patrons dream of. But Europeans failed to suppress their age-old instinct to lie and try to achieve their goals by criminal means." Nazism in Ukraine The reburial of Adolf Hitler’s collaborators in Kiev marks the ultimate culmination in the spread of Nazi ideology in Ukraine: "The apotheosis of Ukraine’s Nazification was the recent kneeling by [Vladimir] Zelensky and other figures of his regime before the ashes of Hitler’s collaborators, which were transported from Europe for reburial in Kiev with royal honors." At the same time, Moscow's former allies in the war against Nazi Germany are now turning a blind eye to such behavior: "It is sad that our former allies in the struggle against Hitler’s Nazism are now turning a blind eye to such actions." European Union officials, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen justify the need for continued financial and military support to Ukraine by claiming that it allegedly defends European values: "It means that racism, persecution of religion and priests, glorification of Nazism are the very values upon which the European Union rests today." Ukrainian settlement terms One of the key conditions for a long-term solution of the Ukrainian conflict is the free use of the Russian language not just in the liberated territories, but on the entire territory of Ukraine: "One of the objectives of the special military operation, in addition to unconditionally ensuring Russia’s security interests, is to fully account for the rights of Russians and Russian speakers not only in Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya, but also on the territory of Ukraine." In Ukraine, with the West’s approval, "laws still remain in force that completely prohibit the Russian language in across all spheres - in education, mass media, culture, and daily life." These laws "were being adopted long before the special military operation, namely since 2017." Self-determination of Crimea, Donbass, Novorossiya In line with the UN Declaration on the principles of the international law, the Kiev regime is no longer entitled to representing the residents of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya: "It is clear to everyone that the Kiev regime cannot be considered the government that represents the interests of residents of Crimea, Donbass and Novorossiya, whom it labeled as terrorists, subhumans and creatures." Russia is looking forward to see the next episode in the "series" showcasing the UN’s double standards regarding the principle of self-determination, following UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres’s incoherent response to the question of whether the right to self-defense, discussed in relation to Greenland, is also applicable to Crimea. About UN future Russia hopes the new UN secretary-general will bring the rhetoric of the Secretariat back in line with the international law. "We hope that the new secretary-general will bring the language of the official representatives of the Secretariat back into the international legal framework. This might also help our Western colleagues, especially the Europeans, to return back to reality and realize the consequences of their reckless policy of blind support to the Kiev regime.".
Israel’s ambassador to the US says son injured in West Bank car-ramming
Palestinian shot dead as Israel's ambassador to the US identifies injured soldier as his son.
US lawmakers seek sanctions for Israel’s ‘E1’ West Bank settlement plan
Project would effectively cleave Palestinian territory in half and has prompted widespread international condemnation.
Lavrov Says Russia Won’t Pause the War for Talks as 51 Countries Urge Russia to End the Aggression
Russia will not halt its aggression against Ukraine even during possible negotiations, Russian Foreign Minister and the Kremlin’s highest-ranking representative Sergey Lavrov said during the United Nations (UN) Security Council meeting on Wednesday. Russia rejected growing international calls for a ceasefire during a high-level Security Council meeting on Ukraine in New York, held at the 81st session of the UN General Assembly. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. “Having learned from bitter experience, we will not pause the special military operation for the duration of negotiations in any format,” Kremlin’s highest-ranking representative said. Ukraine would have kept its 1991 borders if the European nations had not “engaged in their shenanigans,” he continued, echoing Moscow’s long-standing hostility toward the West, just a month after Ukraine marked its 35th Independence Day. Sybiha: ‘Russia is vetoing peace’ Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned Lavrov’s comments during the same meeting on Wednesday. “Fourteen of the 15 members of the UN Security Council support a ceasefire. Only one aggressor is blocking it,” Sybiha said, according to a statement from Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry. The Security Council is the only UN body whose decisions can be legally binding on member states. The council has 15 members, including five permanent members: the US, UK, France, China and Russia. Each permanent member can veto a substantive resolution, meaning Russia can block a resolution seeking to order action over the war it is waging against Ukraine. Russia Must Answer for Crimes in Crimea, Zelensky Says Russia “illegally occupies the USSR’s seat at this table,” Sybiha said, calling for its removal from the Council. He then addressed Lavrov directly, presenting three questions to Moscow; Why won’t Russian President Vladimir Putin meet President Volodymyr Zelensky? What did tens of thousands of Russian soldiers lost in August die for? And how, after four years after planning to take Kyiv in three days, is Moscow now burning? Sybiha also urged members to demand humanitarian corridors for occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region. “If you remember only one thing from this meeting, remember Oleshky,” he said. Oleshky, cut off from water, food and medicine, remains a humanitarian disaster as Russia failed to uphold the evacuation deal. Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainian parliament commissioner for human rights, described the city as a “death trap,” with residents frequently risking being blown up by mines just to have a chance to escape through the woods. On Sept. 16, Lubinets said his office had received 176 appeals regarding the humanitarian situation in Oleshky, and had already verified at least 358 people who urgently need assistance to leave safely. 51 countries call for ceasefire Fifty-one countries backed Ukraine in a joint statement on Wednesday, urging the Kremlin to agree to a full ceasefire and enter meaningful negotiations as large-scale Russian attacks continue in the fifth year of the war. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas delivered the statement at the UN General Assembly, alongside Sybiha and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, according to Democrata. Earlier that day, Zelensky said Ukraine was ready to support a safe-passage regime for vessels in the Black Sea, provided Russia took genuine and reciprocal steps toward de-escalation. On Tuesday, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, Zelensky offered Russia a truce on energy strikes. You can also highlight the text and press Ctrl + Enter
Iran’s Pezeshkian slams ‘terrorist’ US but extols diplomacy in UN speech
Pezeshkian leaves door open for negotiations, while calling out US blockade against Iran in Strait of Hormuz.
China's Quad-G Plan For Global Hegemony Involves The UN And AI
China's Quad-G Plan For Global Hegemony Involves The UN And AI Authored by Anders Corr via The Epoch Times, The regime in China denies that it has plans for "hegemony or expansion," but its history - from the peasant land seizures of the 1920s to claims on the entire South China Sea today - is replete with land grabs and territorial expansion. Starting in 2021 with its first of four global initiatives, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has used ideas for such initiatives and Beijing-led international organizations as engines to extend its expansion toward its long-held goal of global hegemony. The CCP's four global initiatives are ostensibly related to development, security, civilization, and governance. They are meant to seem palatable to the international community while integrating the United Nations and other forms of global governance into the CCP's own system, with itself in the lead. The initiatives are currently expanding and strengthening. On Sept. 12, China expanded the digital element of its Global Development Initiative (GDI) by inviting additional countries to join its World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO). The organization was founded in July and is headquartered in Shanghai. CCP leader Xi Jinping gave the keynote speech at the event. He called for "true multilateralism," which analysts interpret as a justification for a parallel global order with Beijing in the lead. WAICO already has approximately 30 member countries, including Russia and Iran. It serves as a key economic and intelligence initiative led by Beijing to expand the CCP's global influence by promoting China's AI software and cloud infrastructure. The more countries use China's AI assets, the more Beijing's authoritarian approach to AI is normalized, and the more opportunities for global espionage and influence open up for China's military and intelligence agencies. More generally, the GDI uses a wedge strategy to increase the CCP's influence in countries by aligning development aid with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The resulting influence can then be expanded through larger Belt and Road Initiative projects such as ports, trains, roads, pipelines, and digital infrastructure. This broader penetration turns countries toward joining the BRICS group, originally Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, and now including Iran, among others. The group is economically dominated by Beijing, which expects BRICS countries to follow the CCP's lead on relatively anodyne statements such as Middle East peace, as well as on more substantial international projects such as AI development and efforts to shift world trade away from the U.S. dollar. Xi has personally invited BRICS countries to join WAICO. The Global Security Initiative (GSI) overlays China's preexisting military partnerships, such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), with the vision of a "common" security led by the CCP. The Beijing Xiangshan Security Forum, a key vehicle for extending the GSI to influential international military stakeholders, took place from Sept. 15 to Sept. 17. One subject during the forum was reportedly "the impact of AI on future warfare." The threat posed by the GSI and its networking with military and economic partners is real and current. Iran supports the GSI and is a member of the SCO. On Sept. 12, news broke that Chinese entities, most likely with the approval of the CCP, provided Iran with satellite images of U.S. forces in Jordan. Those images likely assisted Iran's missile attack that killed three U.S. troops in July. China has also provided Iran with dual-use components and fuel precursors for its missile and armed drone technologies used against Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine. Other than U.S. sanctions against a few Chinese companies, there were few repercussions imposed on the regime in China for providing Iran with dual-use items and satellite intelligence during a war. This signals to Beijing that it can provide the same to other SCO and BRICS countries in the future simply by changing the names and addresses of the Chinese entities involved. Afghanistan, which hosts al-Qaeda terrorists, is an observer nation in the SCO and could also receive Chinese intelligence or equipment for use against the United States, Pakistan, or India. Beijing has long had a positive relationship with the Taliban in Afghanistan, which has suppressed non-Pashtun ethnicities in the country. This accords with Beijing's Global Civilization Initiative (GCI), which claims to create a more pluralistic world in part through supporting the sovereignty of dictators even as they stifle free markets, speech, and diversity within their own countries. When Xi announced the GCI in 2023, he hypocritically said: "We advocate the common values of humanity. Peace, development, equity, justice, democracy and freedom are the common aspirations of all peoples. Countries need to keep an open mind in appreciating the perceptions of values by different civilizations, and refrain from imposing their own values or models on others and from stoking ideological confrontation." The hypocrisy of this position is evident because then and now, Xi's regime militarily threatens democratic Taiwan; steals maritime territory from the Philippines, Vietnam, and other South China Sea claimants; takes Himalayan territory from India by force; and destroys the freedoms of religious minorities like the Uyghurs, Christians, and Falun Gong within China. Now, with the CCP's four global initiatives, this violent illiberality threatens to scale globally. Xi unveiled his Global Governance Initiative (GGI) last September at an SCO meeting in Tianjin. It promotes international law with the CCP in the lead and a coordinating function for the three prior initiatives. According to Chinese state media, "Viewed as a unified framework, the four initiatives form a 'four-in-one' interactive structure: development as the foundation, security as the guarantee, civilization as the bond, and governance as the coordinating mechanism - all serving the overarching objective of building a community with a shared future for humanity." The CCP's "community with a shared future for humanity" sounds acceptable on first blush but can be directly compared to Imperial Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" in that both used anti-colonial rhetoric and regional economic integration to try and replace "Western hegemony" with an illiberal hegemony of its own making, led by an authoritarian and territorially aggressive power. What could be called the CCP's Quad-G Plan for global hegemony is dangerous to free markets, human rights, and democracy. The CCP is a totalitarian political party attempting to use the large economy of China, its diplomats, an international AI norms-setting body, and an already-existing international institutional structure at the United Nations and elsewhere as the power and tracks for moving an established U.S.-led international system with true sovereignty for members toward a global and illiberal hegemony with Beijing at the center. The CCP's Quad-G approach raises questions about whether U.S. national security and the safety of democracies everywhere necessitate significantly reducing the CCP's influence at the United Nations and other international organizations, as well as expanding sanctions from targeting a few Chinese entities to targeting China as a whole. Options at the U.N. include canceling the visas of China's U.N. diplomats, as was done to Iranian diplomats in 2014 and 2020, to working to return China's seat at the forum to democratic Taiwan. Though Taiwan does not currently propose this, other more powerful countries and groupings, including the United States, the European Union, and the G7 countries, should consider encouraging this idea to more effectively counter the CCP. The more democratic countries legitimize the CCP by engaging with it diplomatically, the more latitude it has to influence other countries to depend on its financing, join CCP-led international partnerships, and fall in line with Beijing's proposals to international organizations. This acclimates them and others to further accept the CCP's leadership and its preferred authoritarian forms of global governance, with Beijing at the center. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of ZeroHedge. Tyler Durden Wed, 09/23/2026 - 14:25
Iran's president backs diplomacy but rules out surrender after Trump’s threat
[EPA] President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran will never "bend the knee" after almost seven months of war with the US and Israel, but is ready for a diplomatic solution to the conflict.Responding to US President Donald Trump's threat to "annihilate" the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached soon, he told the UN General Assembly: "The resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying."Pezeshkian also insisted any deal would have to include an end to the US blockade stopping Iranian ships from using a key Gulf waterway."It cannot be the case that everyone benefits from the Strait of Hormuz while we are denied access," he said.There was no immediate comment from the US, whose delegation walked out of the chamber at the start of Pezeshkian's address. US and Iran hold first talks since June after Trump's 'annihilation' threatAmerican power, AI and a walkout - key moments from Trump's UN speechUN experts say grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran strikes "The US president described us as terrorists. We have been the victims of terrorism," Iran's president told the UN in New York.He then held up a photo of the country's late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a strike on his residence when the US and Israel launched a joint attack in late February.He also presented pictures of some of the more than 175 civilians, two thirds of them children, who Iranian authorities say were killed in missile strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd that day. The US has denied striking Lamerd and said it is still investigating what happened in Minab."Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed on our country. And we defended ourselves with utmost strength," Pezeshkian said.Also on Wednesday, an attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz killed an Indian sailor, the Agence France-Presse news agency reported, citing Omani and Indian authorities. The attack was condemned by India's foreign ministry, which called for unimpeded passage through the Strait to be restored. In February, Iran retaliated for the massive US-Israeli air campaign by launching deadly missile and drone attacks on Israel and neighbouring Gulf Arab states which host US military bases.It also effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of global oil and gas shipments usually pass, by attacking commercial vessels in the Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. The US responded by imposing a blockade of Iranian ports and ships in April.In June, the US and Iran reached a preliminary agreement to end the war and reopen the strait, but it collapsed within weeks after the Iranian attacks on shipping resumed and the US reinstated its blockade.Iran wants to retain some measure of control over the strait and collect fees from vessels that use it, which the US has rejected. Watch: Trump threatens to 'annihilate' Iran if no deal reached In his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Trump said he faced a "big decision" - either negotiate a deal that would allow Iranians to rebuild their country, or "annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly".Pezeshkian said the threat was "a sign of a bullying mentality"."[Trump] must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying. We will never bow our head or bend the knee," he said.But he added: "We are ready for dialogue and diplomacy and negotiations without accepting the language of force."Pezeshkian made clear that the US blockade would have to end as part of any deal."It cannot be the case that everyone benefits from the Strait of Hormuz while we are denied access to shipping through this waterway," he said.He also reiterated that Iran would not give up its right to have a civilian nuclear programme and that it would not seek to develop nuclear weapons."We say it clearly: no nuclear weapons and no limitations on peaceful nuclear technology."Trump argued in his speech that the war had prevented Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb and demanded that its leaders "relinquish their nuclear ambitions".On Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and US envoy Steve Witkoff held indirect talks brokered by Qatari mediators on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.Witkoff said he hoped the discussions – the first since June – would "prove constructive and promising", adding that the mediators would continue their work.But Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baqai said the talks were "not anything new" and that Araghchi had maintained Iran's conditions, including the end of the US blockade and the release of frozen Iranian assets.This article originally appeared on BBC at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqvgyjy23ggjo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D