Oman - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Oman Index / Locations Transcripts Michael Kassen ...Sullivan and Bill Burns were going to Oman for this series of talks with Iran... Dennis Ross ...Ben Nasser] Al-Ismaily—who's from Oman , who then later came to approac... ...when we did the [unclear] conference. Oman became a site for multilatera... ...things go easily. When we went out to Oman , it was a secret trip. The week afte... ...me, “By the way, how was your trip to Oman ?” This was his way of saying, “Yo... ...it? The Israelis have a presence in Oman .” But I lost that debate. I do wan... Mara Rudman ...had with the Emirati leaders in Oman , certainly in Morocco. All th... Jake Sullivan ...in 2012, to the first secret mission to Oman to meet with Iranian counterparts t... ...of conversations with the sultan of Oman , which is a Gulf country across th... ...whether it might be possible for Oman to facilitate dialogue between the U... ...are prepared to send a delegation to Oman in July, and will the US come? Th... ...of us basically found our own way to Oman for this first meeting with th... ...us out of Iran for a second, or out of Oman , because you were in a new position a... ...sense—come back to the back channel in Oman , the second meeting in March of 2013... Show more... William Burns ...the opportunity of that back channel in Oman opening and what your sense was fo... ...conversation with the Iranians in Oman . The Omani government, which among th... ...very beginning of March of 2013 in Oman . Without asking you to get into th... Anne Patterson ...all over the Middle East—Syria, Yemen, Oman . Some of those places have had dam... Colin Kahl ...and Yemen, and Bahrain, and Jordan, and Oman , and Libya, and Syria. I mean, wha... Ben Rhodes ...we could have a secret channel in Oman . So, as with the Cubans, we knew w... ...line is we had proven that, through Oman , we could meet, have a channel, tha... Hillary Clinton ...would reach out through the Sultan of Oman [Qaboos bin Said], who I kne... ...an NSC-CIA rep, and they went off to Oman totally secretly. Nobody knew abou... ...to. People didn't notice. He went to Oman , met with the Iranians, then came al... ...a decision. I then called the sultan of Oman , who had been a very goo... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Gun Control Gun Control go to the Education Education go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Public Health Public Health