Araghchi Denies Any US-Iranian Meeting

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denied speculation about a possible meeting between the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council and the US vice president, describing the reports as completely baseless. He told the Iranian news agency IRNA that no meeting had been planned and that it was not on the agenda. Earlier, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei accused Washington of spreading false news about "imaginary" talks and demanded that it accept Tehran's seven conditions, while US President Donald Trump spoke of "positive momentum" toward ending the war after meeting Qatar's prime minister at the White House. Press TV reported that the conditions include stopping fighting on all fronts, releasing frozen Iranian assets, lifting the naval blockade, canceling economic and political sanctions, withdrawing US naval and air forces from the region, paying war reparations, and ending threats and insults, and that Tehran formally conveyed them to Washington in September via Qatar and other regional mediators.