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Date: November 15, 2024 at 12:26:51
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Musk met with Iran’s UN ambassador to discuss defusing Iranian-U.S. .. |
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/world/middleeast/elon-musk-iran-trump.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes |
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Eric Lee/The New York Times

By Farnaz Fassihi
Nov. 14, 2024
"Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, met with Iran’s
ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two
Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between
Iran and the United States.
The Iranians said the meeting between Mr. Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid
Iravani lasted more than an hour and was held at a secret location. The Iranians,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to
discuss policy publicly, described the meeting as “positive” and “good news.”
Asked about whether there was such a session, Steven Cheung, Mr. Trump’s
communications director, said, “We do not comment on reports of private
meetings that did or did not occur.” Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for
comment."
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Date: November 15, 2024 at 12:31:02
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: full article |
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/world/middleeast/elon-musk-iran-trump.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes |
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By Farnaz Fassihi
Nov. 14, 2024
"Elon Musk, a close adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, met with Iran’s
ambassador to the United Nations on Monday in New York in a session that two
Iranian officials described as a discussion of how to defuse tensions between
Iran and the United States.
The Iranians said the meeting between Mr. Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid
Iravani lasted more than an hour and was held at a secret location. The Iranians,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to
discuss policy publicly, described the meeting as “positive” and “good news.”
Asked about whether there was such a session, Steven Cheung, Mr. Trump’s
communications director, said, “We do not comment on reports of private
meetings that did or did not occur.” Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for
comment.
Karoline Leavitt, the transition spokeswoman for the incoming Trump-Vance
administration, said in a statement: “The American people re-elected President
Trump because they trust him to lead our country and restore peace through
strength around the world. When he returns to the White House, he will take the
necessary action to do just that.”
Mr. Musk has emerged as the most powerful private citizen in the Trump
transition, and has sat in on nearly every job interview. During a call last week with
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, the president-elect handed the phone
to the billionaire. Mr. Musk has played a key role in providing communications
capability to Ukraine in the war with Russia.
An early direct meeting between a senior Iranian official and Mr. Musk raises the
possibility of a change in tone between Tehran and Washington under the Trump
administration, despite a charged history between the president-elect and Iran.
One of the Iranian officials said that it was Mr. Musk who had requested the
meeting and that the ambassador picked the site.
During his first term Mr. Trump pulled the United States out of the 2015 nuclear
accord between Iran and world powers, calling it “a horrible one-sided deal that
should have never, ever been made,” and imposed tough economic sanctions on
Iranian oil revenues and international banking transactions. He also ordered the
assassination of a top Iranian general, Qassim Suleimani, in Iraq in 2020.
In response, Iran’s supreme leader banned any negotiations with the Trump
administration and Iranian officials vowed to avenge Mr. Suleimani’s killing.
Federal prosecutors said in a court filing last week that Iran had plotted to
assassinate Mr. Trump before the election.
But in the wake of Mr. Trump’s election last week, Iran has been openly debating
whether it can now reach a new and more lasting deal with the United States.
Many members of President Masoud Pezeshkian’s new government favor
negotiating, arguing that Mr. Trump likes to make deals and that there may be an
opportunity to get the sanctions lifted."
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