Iran’s overseas minister has communicated in latest 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 to an individual acquainted with the matter.
It wasn’t clear what, if something, the outreach from Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi may 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 as the Trump administration labored to negotiate a nuclear settlement.
Those talks sputtered out after the US bombed Iranian nuclear websites in June.
Trump stated Sunday that Iran had known as him a day earlier to negotiate.
“They called yesterday,” Trump stated. “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 overseas ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei stated 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.