Why 🐵 NatSecAllTheTime picked: Oil falls amid optimism over potential diplomatic solution to the Iran conflict

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Oil fell Friday, following a report that U.S. and Iranian negotiators are discussing a phased deal to end the standoff in the Persian Gulf.

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Why 🐵 NatSecAllTheTime picked: Oil falls amid optimism over potential diplomatic solution to the Iran conflict

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When China’s President Xi Jinping met US leader Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday he called for greater cooperation between the two countries to avoid the “Thucydides Trap." What does it mean?

Abraham Accords countries hold first official meeting since Oct. 7 attacks

US and Iranian negotiators are exploring a phased deal that would see Tehran reopen the Strait of Hormuz and Washington lift its economic blockade of Iranian ports, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

The Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday defeated a Democratic resolution to end the war in Iran even as endangered GOP senators have started to publicly break with Trump amid the economic fallout from the widely unpopular conflict

Iran has given the Trump administration a proposal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and restart talks over an end to the broader war within seven days, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.

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