Left to Right: Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian.
The New York Times’s Farnaz Fassihi reports that Elon Musk has had a conversation with Iran’s ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Iravani. She writes:
Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.
The Iranians said the meeting between Mr. Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani lasted more than an hour and was held at a secret location. The Iranians, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss policy publicly, described the meeting as “positive” and “good news.”
Asked about whether there was such a session, Steven Cheung, Mr. Trump’s communications director, said, “We do not comment on reports of private meetings that did or did not occur.” Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.
Karoline Leavitt, the transition spokeswoman for the incoming Trump-Vance administration, said in a statement: “The American people re-elected President Trump because they trust him to lead our country and restore peace through strength around the world. When he returns to the White House, he will take the necessary action to do just that.”
Newsmax reports that new Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has promised outreach to the West, writing:
The U.S. and Iran have had an adversarial relationship since Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution and the takeover of the U.S. Embassy and 444-day hostage crisis that followed.
In Trump’s first term in office, he pursued a policy of “maximum pressure” against Tehran. He withdrew the U.S. from the agreement with world powers known as the Iran nuclear deal, calling in “one-sided,” imposed sanctions on the terror state and ordered the killing of the country’s top general, Qasem Soleimani in 2020.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state, has repeatedly expressed his own disgust with Trump, but Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who will mark his first 100 days in office next week, campaigned on a promise of outreach to the West to lift sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program — which now enriches uranium to near weapons-grade levels.
Last Thursday, Pezeshkian appeared to remain open to talks with Washington — even in the wake of Trump’s victory — saying that “it doesn’t matter who has won the U.S elections.”
“We will in no way have a closed and limited approach in the expansion of ties with other countries,” he said, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
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