Vance reaches out to Iran security chief in bid to restart peace talks, WSJ reports
The outreach seeks a framework for talks and could include sanctions relief and access to frozen 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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The Wall Street Journal reports that US Vice President JD Vance is trying to restart peace talks with Iran and has reached out to hardline supporters of the Islamic regime.
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U.S. Vice President JD Vance contacted Iran's head of security in an attempt to resume peace negotiations that could prevent further U.S. attacks on the Islamic Republic, reported on Wednesday the The Wall Street Journal. Vance sent a letter to Mohsen Rezaei, head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, reported the newspaper. According to one of the sources heard from the publication, the initiative was ordered by President Donald Trump.
U.S. Vice-President J. D. Vance, in a message to the Secretary of the Iranian Supreme Security Council, Mohsen Rezai, expressed his willingness to become head of the American delegation in the event of the resumption of negotiations, informed The New York Times. US Vice-President J. D. Vance invited the Iranian leadership to organize a bilateral meeting in the near future, expressing his willingness to personally head the American negotiating gr…
Vance contacts Iranian security chief to restart peace talks, WSJ reports
United States Vice President JD Vance has contacted Iranian security chief to revive peace talks that could stave off a renewed American assault on Iran, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday.
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