Top US and Iranian officials are due to meet to hold talks on a possible nuclear deal, while Iran's military chief threatened that "no American would be safe" if the US conducted strikes on Iran, according to media reports on Monday.

The Trump administration's Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are expected to meet in Istanbul on Friday to discuss a possible nuclear deal, two sources with knowledge of the plans told Axios's Barak Ravid on Monday. A third source stated that a meeting on Friday was the "best case scenario," while cautioning that nothing is final until it happens.

This was later corroborated by an anonymous US official, cited by Reuters as saying that Trump has been "calling for them [Iran] to make a deal. The meeting is to hear what they have to say."

This follows reports from Iran's semi-official Tasnim News Agency, which stated earlier on Monday that potential negotiations between the two

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