00:05Qatar has again rejected Iran's claim that it is secretly holding three Iranian pilots
00:10whose aircraft were shot down in March.
00:12Speaking here in Doha, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Dr. Majid Al Ansari
00:16called the accusations both false and illogical,
00:19saying the pilots entered Qatari airspace on a military mission.
00:23Iran says the three pilots were captured alive after the aircraft were downed
00:27during an operation targeting the U.S. Al-Odeid airbase.
00:31Qatar says the aircraft had violated its airspace and were targeting Doha.
00:53Dr. Al Ansari says Qatari forces tried to contact the pilots,
00:57but got no response.
00:59Search teams later recovered the remains of one pilot,
01:01which an Iranian delegation came to Doha to collect.
01:05Qatar also invited an Iranian technical team to review the search operation,
01:09but says Tehran has yet to respond.
01:11The briefing also turned to efforts to end the wider conflict.
01:15Dr. Al Ansari says U.S.-Iran talks are still far from resuming,
01:19with Qatar waiting for Iran and Oman to reach an agreement over the Strait of Hormuz.
01:24The trajectory of events we would like to see in Qatar
01:27is an agreement on the opening of the Strait of Hormuz,
01:30which would coincide with the resumption of the ceasefire
01:33and the resumption of the talks.
01:35Are these parallel lines, you know, converging or diverging?
01:42Well, it's not very systematic on our end,
01:46but what I would say is that the agreement over the Strait of Hormuz
01:51would make it much easier for us to resume the talks
01:52between the United States and Iran.
01:56For now, Qatar says the focus remains on de-escalation,
02:00reopening the Strait,
02:01and ultimately getting both sides back to the negotiating table.
02:05Adel Halim, your news, Doha.
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