Qatar says indirect US-Iran talks in Doha made "positive progress"

Qatar said Wednesday that separate indirect meetings in Doha between US and Iranian negotiators made “positive progress” on issues tied to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, with both sides agreeing to continue discussions.Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said in a post on X that Qatari and Pakistani mediators held separate talks with the US and Iranian delegations in Qatar’s capital.He said the discussions built on the outcome of a high-level meeting in Switzerland and that the next meeting would be scheduled “at the earliest possible time” after funeral processions for Iran’s former supreme leader.Iranian authorities are planning funeral ceremonies for the slain leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, from July 4 through July 9 in locations across Iran and Iraq, months after his death. He was killed in an airstrike on the first day of the US-Israeli war with Iran on February 28.