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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchicontacted White House Envoy Steve Witkoff over the weekend to ease tensionswith Washington, Axios reported on Monday.
Citing two sources, Axios said theoutreach aimed to “deescalate with the U.S., or at least buy more time,”marking what it called the first indication that a direct backchannel betweenTehran and Washington remains active despite stalled nuclear negotiations andescalating rhetoric.
One source noted that Araghchi and Witkoffdiscussed the possibility of holding a meeting “in the coming days,” though thesources did not confirm whether the exchange took place by phone or text.
Both sides have yet to comment publicly.
US President Donald Trump said on Sundaythat Iran had contacted Washington a day earlier and proposed negotiations overa nuclear deal. “We may meet with them. A meeting is being set up, but we mayhave to act because of what’s happening, before the meeting. … but a meeting isbeing set up,” he told reporters.
According to Axios, contacts betweenWitkoff and Araghchi began during nuclear talks last year and continued evenafter US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokespersonEsmaeil Baqaei confirmed today that the communication channel between both officialsremains open, noting that Tehran and Washington also communicate through Swissmediation.
Tensions between Iran and the UnitedStates have intensified following nationwide unrest that erupted on December28, after the Iranian rial plunged to a record low of about 1.45 million per USdollar, fueling sharp rises in food prices and inflation. Tehran rejectedcharacterizations of the unrest as protests, describing it instead as a“terrorist war against Iran” and accusing the United States and Israel of seekingto destabilize the country. Washington, meanwhile, warned Tehran against theuse of lethal force against demonstrators, stressing that any killings wouldcarry serious consequences—comments Iran described as interference in itsinternal affairs.
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