Top officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey were in Tehran on a last-ditch mission to head off renewed US-Israeli hostilities against Iran after Nov. 3.
The push comes as the report says Donald Trump has delayed a new strike partly to avoid pre-midterm political fallout, while Benjamin Netanyahu is seen as having incentives to revive the conflict after Israel’s election.
Oman’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi said a Qatar-mediated talks process has not fully collapsed and could still yield a diplomatic outcome, with a longer-term non-aggression pact among Gulf states, Iran and Iraq also floated.
A renewed assault could send oil prices sharply higher and trigger Iranian retaliation against Gulf energy infrastructure, shipping chokepoints and wider regional targets from Yemen to Lebanon.
European governments and other democracies are being urged to back a formal warning to Washington and Israel that another war would carry lasting economic, diplomatic and security costs.