Iran Admits Top Diplomat Will Meet Trump Envoy – but Insists Talks with U.S. Are Only 'Indirect'

Iran Admits Top Diplomat Will Meet Trump Envoy – but Insists Talks with U.S. Are Only ‘Indirect’


Iranian state media reported on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will meet with Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff in Muscat, the capital of Oman, on Saturday.

Araghchi confirmed there would be “indirect high-level talks” in Oman but did not indicate he would participate in them. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump insisted the discussion would qualify as “direct talks with Iran.”

The question of whether Iran would negotiate with the Trump administration at all, and just how “direct” such talks might be if they occurred, has been hotly debated by Iranian officials and in state media outlets in recent weeks.

In February, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei insisted there would be no talks at all because negotiating with the Trump administration would be “neither

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