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: Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says Iran has not received any letter from the United States, after President Donald Trump claimed to have sent such a letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Sunday 9 March 2025 - 10:38
Story Code : 436365
Source : IRNA
Foreign minister says Iran has not received any letter from the U.S.
“We have heard the same, [but] we haven’t got anything yet,” the top diplomat responded.
“It hasn’t arrived yet,” said Araqchi after the reporter repeated his question whether Iran has the letter or not.
The conversation took place on the sidelines of a meeting in Tehran, during which Ayatollah Khamenei received heads of the three branches of government and other senior civil and military officials.
On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that he had sent a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, asking that negotiations be reopened. The claim comes amid a campaign of “maximum pressure” which Trump restored against Iran early last month, two weeks after he began his second term.
Trump initially launched that campaign in 2018 when he withdrew the U.S. from a landmark multilateral deal on Iran’s nuclear program. Since his return to the White House on January 20 this year, Trump has spoken of negotiating a new deal with Iran.
During the Saturday meeting with Iranian officials, Ayatollah Khamenei said that calls for negotiations by “bullying” powers are not aimed at resolving issues; rather, they are an attempt to impose their demands on the Islamic Republic.
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