Day 125 of US-Israel War on Iran: Positive Progress Made, Says Qatar, as US, Iran Separately Meet Mediators

US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, were in Qatar for talks seeking a permanent end to the war, along with Iran’s top negotiator, Kazem Gharibabadi.

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day 125 of us israel war on iran positive progress made says qatar as us iran separately meet mediators

US President Donald Trump speaks at Burning Hills Amphitheatre during the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opening ceremony, Wednesday, July 1, 2026, in Medora, N.D. Photo: AP/PTI

New Delhi: The West Asia crisis triggered by the US and Israel’s war on Iran entered day 125 on Thursday (July 2). Qatar has said that US and Iranian negotiators met separately on Wednesday (July 1) with Qatari and Pakistani mediators, with “positive progress made,” and they agreed to continue discussions.

The next meeting will be scheduled “at the earliest possible time” after the funeral of Iran’s previous supreme leader, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Majed al-Ansari, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, said on X. The funeral is set to start Saturday (July 4) in Tehran.

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