Billionaire Elon Musk, who will head the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the next Donald Trump Administration, met with Iran’s ambassador to the UN on Monday to ease tense bilateral relations, according to the newspaper The New York Times.
The meeting between Musk and the Iranian ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, took place for more than an hour in a secret locationaccording to two Iranian officials cited by The New York Times in the article, published this Thursday, and indicated that the meeting took place to evaluate how to ease relations between the countries.
The Iranians, who maintained their anonymity, They described the appointment as “positive” and “good news”and one of them assured that it was Musk who requested the meeting and that the diplomat chose the site.
The meeting took place a day before Trump announced that he was placing Musk at the helm of the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE, in English, a nod to the billionaire’s favorite cryptocurrency), and further evidences the weight of the CEO of Tesla in the future cabinet of the president-elect of the United States
It also suggests the possibility of a change in tone, he notes NYTbetween Tehran and Washington under the new Trump administration, which in its previous mandate (2017-2021) promoted a “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran with economic sanctions and abandonment of the 2015 nuclear agreement.
The president of Iran, Masud Pezeshkian, affirmed this Thursday that his country is ready to cooperate and to clarify the peaceful nature of its nuclear activities during a meeting in Tehran with the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, and recalled that it complies with the obligations of the pact, which limited its program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.
Trump’s return marks a question about the course of Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon. On the one hand, he maintains constant support for Israel, whose Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, assured this Sunday that he has had three calls with Trump since his election, emphasizing the “Iranian threat” as one of the key issues in them.
On the other hand, in his first speech after winning the elections, the Republican leader assured that he did not want wars: “I’m not going to start a war. “I’m going to stop them,” he proclaimed.
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