Vance reaches out to Iran security chief in bid to restart peace talks, WSJ reports
The outreach seeks a framework to end the war and could include sanctions relief and access to frozen Iranian funds, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance sent a letter to Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, at President Donald Trump's direction to restart peace negotiations.
- Vance is assessing if Iran and the United States can find common ground to convince Trump to cancel a potential strike on Tehran planned after next week's midterm elections.
- Rezaei, a former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander from 1981 to 1997, is a close ally of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and viewed as one of Tehran's most influential hard-liners.
- Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that while Iran is open to diplomacy, the country requires "reliable, implementable, and irrevocable guarantees" from the United States to ensure peace.
- The Pentagon has increased military assets in the Middle East while Iran weighs a Qatar-led nuclear offer proposing United Nations inspectors access to bombed sites.
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US Vice President J.D. Vance has sent a letter to the Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, in an attempt to renew negotiations between Washington and Tehran, The Wall Street Journal reported. The information was cited by several media outlets, including Axios and the AFP agency. According to American sources, the letter was aimed at checking whether the two countries can restore diplomatic channels and prevent a …
Washington is considering a short but intensive military operation after the November 3 elections, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Vance seeks points of convergence through a letter to Tehran in order to convince Trump "not to give the order" to launch a "short" but "intensive" new attack against Iran. The post Iran: Vance's letter to Tehran with threats of new bombings, writes the Wall Street Journal appeared first on in.gr.
The war, launched jointly by Israel and the United States at the end of February, has seriously disrupted energy shipments from the Gulf countries.
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