Donald Trump said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner joined a three-hour meeting with an Iranian delegation at the UN and called it very good, with another meeting to follow. The Financial Times calls the contact the first talks since June and says Trump threatened annihilation. Iranian officials told the Guardian, as Al Jazeera reports, that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was there and that Qatar mediated. The Guardian cast it as the first such contact since JD Vance met an Iranian delegation in Switzerland in June.
Donald Trump said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner joined a three-hour meeting with an Iranian delegation at the UN and called it very good. He added that another meeting would follow soon. The Financial Times headline says the United States and Iran held their first talks since June, and that Trump threatened annihilation.[1], [2]
Iranian officials told the Guardian, Al Jazeera reports, that the meeting included Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and that Qatar mediated. The Guardian described it as the first such contact since JD Vance met an Iranian delegation in Switzerland in June. That June marker is the same break the Financial Times headline names.[1], [2]
Trump's own account, as Al Jazeera carries it, stops at a positive verdict and a promise of another meeting soon. He did not, in that account, announce an agreement. The annihilation line sits in the Financial Times headline beside the talks. It is a threat reported with the meeting, not a term sheet.[1], [2]
