Iran judiciary chief threatens to target those 'acting in tandem with Israel'

Iranian media circulated a photograph from Ali Larijani’s meeting in Muscat with Oman’s foreign minister that shows what appears to be a document or letter placed beside the officials, prompting speculation about its significance.

Some Iranian media outlets speculated that the document could be a written message intended for delivery through Omani mediation.

The image, released following the visit by adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to Oman, does not reveal the contents of the document, and no official confirmation has been provided about its nature.

Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq met Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, in Muscat on Tuesday and discussed the latest developments in Iran-US negotiations and ways to reach a “balanced and fair” agreement, Oman News Agency reported.

The meeting also stressed the importance of returning to dialogue and negotiations, bringing views closer, and resolving differences through peaceful means, with the stated aim of establishing peace and security in the region and the world, ONA said.

Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported the meeting lasted nearly three hours.

Earlier, the Associated Press reported Larijani’s Tuesday trip to Muscat was likely to convey Iran’s response to the latest round of talks with the United States, which was held in Muscat.

Iran’s opponents spread false casualty figures and exaggerate events linked to the protests, said deputy for communications and information at the Iranian president’s office on Tuesday.

“Manufacturing deaths, exaggerating events, and presenting false statistics about those killed and injured in the January incidents are inherent to the information tactics of Iran’s enemies and ill-wishers,” Mehdi Tabatabaei wrote on X.

He added that the government, by contrast, was obliged to provide accurate information and clarify all aspects of what happened.

“The death of even a single Iranian citizen is bitter, unacceptable, and abnormal,” he said.

A senior official in the political arm of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s office said on Tuesday that a US strike on Iran could spiral into a broader regional conflict.

“Perhaps the enemy thinks it can launch a limited and controlled war, but this war could turn into an unlimited, destructive and regional war,” said Rasul Sanaeirad, the deputy for political affairs in Khamenei’s ideological-political office.

Citing what he called “the enemy’s record of bad faith and deception,” he said Iran was conducting negotiations with Washington while maintaining full preparedness for war.

Iran is prepared for a possible attack and has no trust in the United States or in negotiations with it, an Iranian lawmaker said on Tuesday.

“We are fully ready for a possible attack, because we have no trust at all in the United States and negotiations with them,” Mohammadreza Mohseni Sani, a member of parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee said.

He added that the agenda of the negotiations with the US had been limited to the nuclear issue and no other topics had been discussed.