US, Iranian officials hold three-hour meeting at UN: Trump
Trump said the meeting was very good and signaled another round of talks soon as both sides weigh a deal to end the war.
- On Tuesday, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at the UN General Assembly in New York, marking the first face-to-face contact between officials from the two nations in months.
- During the meeting, Araghchi conveyed Tehran's conditions for reopening the strategic Strait of Hormuz, including lifting the naval blockade, releasing frozen assets, and ending war across all 'resistance' fronts.
- President Donald Trump revealed the talks while simultaneously telling the United Nations he was deciding whether to "annihilate" Iran, adding, "I have a big decision to make-- will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild?"
- Witkoff told reporters he feels "very good" about the meeting, which follows a previous engagement between Vice President JD Vance and Tehran officials in Switzerland last June.
- While at the UN, Trump also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and signed a security pact with Greenland and Denmark, claiming a deal to end the war in Ukraine "is going to happen, I think, more quickly than people understand.
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Just a few hours after US President Donald Trump warned that Iran could be “annihilated” in his speech at the UN General Assembly on the 22nd (local time), the US and Iran contacted each other for 3 hours in New York. President Trump said the talks were “very productive” and that additional meetings will be held in the near future.
Trump says U.S. and Iranian officials met Tuesday, shortly after warning he may 'annihilate' Iran
UNITED NATIONS — President Trump said U.S. and Iranian officials met on Tuesday, an unexpected engagement that came even as he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end the nearly seven-month war.
Top officials from the United States and Iran held behind-the-scenes talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. According to reports from major media outlets on the 22nd (local time), the U.S. and Iranian delegations met face-to-face for approximately three hours at the UN headquarters in New York. On the U.S. side, Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner jointly s…
A high-level meeting took place between the Iranian delegation and US officials who arrived in New York for the UNGA session. The three-hour meeting included US officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, along with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Iran laid out its conditions for opening the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war.
Iran's Araghchi Meets US Envoy Witkoff, Sets Conditions For Hormuz Reopening
According to the state news agency IRIB, Araghchi told Witkoff that Tehran demands included "the immediate lifting of the (US) naval blockade, the prompt payment of all Iranian assets that have been frozen,
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