Trump's special envoy Witkoff and Kushner visit US aircraft carrier amid Iran tensions, talks

U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff on with Jared Kushner and Adm. Brad Cooper, the commandant of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), visited the USS Abraham Lincoln successful the Arabian Sea connected a scheduled deployment Saturday.

The sojourn comes amid tensions with Iran arsenic Witkoff said the work members were "keeping america harmless and upholding President Trump’s connection of bid done strength," and a time aft the U.S. and Iran held talks successful Oman to sermon Iran’s atomic program.

"We thanked the sailors and Marines, observed unrecorded formation operations, and spoke with the aviator who downed an Iranian drone that approached the bearer without wide intent," Witkoff wrote connected X. "Proud to basal with the men and women who support our interests, deter our adversaries, and amusement the satellite what American readiness and resoluteness look like, connected ticker each day."

The craft bearer near San Diego successful November for the Indo-Pacific portion and moved to the Middle East successful January.

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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner flew to the USS Lincoln connected Saturday successful the Arabian Sea. (CENTCOM/X)

"I articulation the American radical successful expressing our unthinkable pridefulness successful the Sailors and Marines of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group," Cooper told the work members. "Their dedication to the ngo and professionalism are connected afloat show present successful the Middle East arsenic they show U.S. subject readiness and strength."

This comes arsenic Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau said helium would conscionable with President Donald Trump successful Washington, D.C., connected Wednesday to sermon Iran.

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Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner flew retired to the USS Lincoln with Adam Cooper connected Saturday, according to officials. (CENTCOM/X)

"The premier curate believes that each negotiations indispensable see limiting ballistic missiles, and ending enactment for the Iranian axis," Netanyahu’s bureau said, referring to Tehran's enactment for groups specified arsenic Hezbollah and Hamas.

The 2 leaders past met successful September.

Trump described Friday's Oman talks, which included Witkoff and Kushner, arsenic "very good."

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner greeting Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Hamad Al Busaidi up of U.S.-Iran talks, successful Muscat, the superior of Oman, connected Friday. (Oman Foreign Ministry/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"Iran looks similar it wants to marque a woody precise badly," the president told reporters Friday aboard Air Force One en way to Mar-a-Lago. "We person to spot what that woody is."