Iran’s international minister has communicated in current days with Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s particular envoy, as Trump weighs taking motion in response to Tehran’s crackdown on protesters, in accordance with an individual accustomed to the matter.
It wasn’t clear what, if something, the outreach from Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would possibly yield. But it appeared to some US officers like an effort to decrease temperatures amid Trump’s threats.
Witkoff and Araghchi established a channel of communication early final yr because the Trump administration labored to barter a nuclear settlement.
Those talks sputtered out after the US bombed Iranian nuclear websites in June.
Trump mentioned Sunday that Iran had known as him a day earlier to barter.
“They called yesterday,” Trump mentioned. “Iran called to negotiate.”
“The leaders of Iran, they want to negotiate,” he continued.
“I think they’re tired of being beat up by the United States. Iran wants to negotiate with us.”
Today, Iranian international ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei mentioned the communication channel between Araghchi and Witkoff “remains open” and “whenever necessary, messages are exchanged through that channel.”
He added that “certain points and ideas have been presented by the other side,” referring to the US.