Iran This Saturday, he denied American media reports about a meeting between Iran’s permanent representative to the UN, Saeed Shiravani, and the tycoon. Elon Muskadviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, this week in New York.

“Elon Musk’s meeting with Iran’s permanent representative denied in New York,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghaei said in a statement to IRNA.

Bagai said he was surprised by US media reports about the meeting.

Diary New York Times Last Thursday it was reported that Musk, who will head the new Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) in the next Trump administration, Met with Iran’s UN ambassador on Monday to ease strained bilateral relations.

Citing two Iranian officials who remained anonymous, the American newspaper detailed that secret meeting lasting more than an hour It was created in order to assess how relations between countries could be de-escalated.

Sources called the appointment “positive” and “good news,” with one assuring that Musk asked for a meeting and that this place was chosen by an Iranian diplomat.

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American side haven’t commented on this question yetbut in Iran it has provoked debate between the most difficult sectors and the reformists.

Ultra-conservative newspaper Kayhanclose to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in his column entitled “Secret Meeting with Trump’s Representative, Naivety or Betrayal!?” criticized the reform sector, which calls for opening relations with the Westincluding the US (EU).

“Reformers want Iran to sit at the court table as a defendant,” the newspaper’s leader denounced. Hossein Shariatmadari in his column.

On the other hand, the newspaperJomhuri Eslami(Islamic Republic, in Spanish), close to reformists, welcomed negotiations with Washington.

“They can be seen as the beginning a new path in foreign policy our country,” the newspaper said, highlighting that the Iranian government is showing signs it wants to ease tensions with the United States.

“There is no doubt that diplomacy is stronger and more effective than any other weapon if it is calculated, reasonable and planned,” the media emphasized.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian came to power in July with a message of rapprochement with the West, but events such as the Gaza war and clashes with Israel They gave him few opportunities.

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Except, The President has limited powers in foreign policy in Iran, where the figure of the Supreme Leader serves as the head of state with enormous powers. (EFE)