Iran’s Ambassador To Pakistan Says No Talks With US Have Taken Place, Contradicting Trump

Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan said Wednesday that Tehran and Washington have not spoken not directly, not through back channels despite Donald Trump claiming otherwise just a day earlier.

“According to my information and contrary to Trump’s claims so far no negotiations, direct or indirect, have taken place between the two countries,” Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam told reporters.

Trump had said Tuesday that talks were happening “right now” and that Iran wants a deal “so badly.” He also claimed the US was in contact with a “top person” in Tehran not the Supreme Leader, he specified.

Iran’s military wasn’t impressed. Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesman for the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters — the unified command of Iran’s armed forces shot back in a video: “Has the level of your inner struggle reached the stage of you negotiating with yourself?” He added that “people like us can never get along with people like you,” and warned that US investments and pre-war energy prices wouldn’t return until Washington accepted Iranian armed forces as the guarantor of regional stability.

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Moghadam did leave one door open. He said it was “natural” for friendly countries to stay in touch with both sides a nod to Pakistan, whose Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has offered to host peace talks.

The Associated Press, citing Pakistani officials, reported that the Trump administration had already sent Tehran a 15-point ceasefire proposal. Trump confirmed the proposal publicly, saying it included a condition that Iran give up any path to a nuclear weapon. He also claimed Tehran had a “very big present” for Washington related to oil and gas this while the Strait of Hormuz remains closed. Tehran hasn’t confirmed any of it.