DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and the United States will hold talks Friday in Oman, their latest over Tehran's nuclear program after Israel launched a 12-day war on the country in June and the Islamic Republic launched a bloody crackdown on nationwide protests.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, said his country was 'ready' for talks with the US, but no concrete plans had yet been made.

Iran is portraying the Muscat nuclear talks with the United States as a major diplomatic win, claiming negotiations are unfolding entirely on Tehran’s preferred terms. According to Reuters, Iranian officials believe President Donald Trump has already accepted Iran’s key red line: uranium enrichment will not be eliminated under any future deal.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has vowed to unleash a regional war if America launches air strikes. Initially few in the Middle East seemed eager for further conflict. The region’s power-brokers tried to dissuade America from military action. But attitudes now look more mixed.

Iran unveiled a new banner over the weekend in Tehran’s Enghelab Square threatening the USS Abraham Lincoln, showing an aircraft carrier strewn with bodies and streaked with blood.

The Trump administration has targets but no endgame.

If it refuses to make a deal, he said, the next attack would be “far worse” than the raids on Iran’s nuclear sites last year. That is a credible threat. The centrepiece of the armada is the USS Abraham Lincoln,