Elon Musk met with an Iranian diplomat in New York on Monday, Tehran “categorically” denies – Libération

A secret meeting. Elon Musk, who is a friend of US President Donald Trump, met with the Iranian ambassador to the UN on Monday to “relieve tension” between Tehran and the United States, the New York Times reported on Thursday. The day raises two anonymous sources from Iran specifying that the meeting that lasted more than an hour in a secret place in New York between the billionaire and Amir Saeid Iravani had been. “positive” and represented “good news”.

Questioned by AFP, the Iranian mission to the UN indicated that it was not “no comments”. Donald Trump’s team has not confirmed the meeting either. But Saturday, Iran “to category” deny any meeting between American businessman Elon Musk and his ambassador to the UN, and he expressed a “surprise” regarding the media coverage of the case, according to the official agency Irna, citing the spokesman for Iranian diplomacy, Esmaïl Baghaï.

“Hidden Meeting”, “a new diplomatic path” or “treason” : Iranian newspapers – printed before Tehran’s rejection – were distributed on Saturday at the meeting and urged not to “override” the field. “Although this announcement and conversation are not official, they can be considered the beginning of a new direction in our country’s foreign policy.”giving an estimate of the day Jomhouri Eslamiwhich was established after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iran’s opening signal

But if the meeting was confirmed, it could be a sign that the president-elect has decided to choose a diplomatic approach with Tehran. The United States and Iran, once close allies, severed diplomatic relations in 1980, shortly after the Islamic Revolution that toppled the Pahlavi dynasty backed by Washington.

In his first term between 2016 and 2020, Donald Trump was the architect of a policy known as “The Greatest Stress” toward Iran, reimposing heavy sanctions against Tehran that were lifted as part of a historic nuclear deal that expired in 2015.

Iran sent last week to Donald Trump a sign of openness by asking him to adopt a new policy against him, after Washington accused Tehran of being involved in a plot to assassinate America’s president-elect.