Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Tehran has no intention of entering talks with Washington. “We will not negotiate with the United States,” he wrote on social media platform X.
The statement followed a report by The Wall Street Journal, which claimed that Larijani himself had floated the idea of dialogue and conveyed a proposal to the United States through intermediaries.
Earlier, U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview with The Atlantic that representatives of Iran’s new leadership had allegedly approached him about resuming negotiations, and that he was open to such a step. Trump did not specify who exactly had made the overture.
Ali Larijani remains one of the most senior figures in Iran’s leadership to have survived the first two days of the war. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed on the first day, and control of the country has since passed to a provisional council.