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[UPDATE] Iran says its UN delegation has no talks planned with the US and will fly home Tuesday, Sept. 29; mediators keep working

A White House official says Trump is open to sanctions relief in exchange for concrete progress on Iran's nuclear program.

Iran's state news agency IRNA said late Sunday, Sept. 27, that the country's delegation in New York "has no plans for negotiations with the United States." IRNA cited one unnamed "source close to the delegation," not the foreign ministry. The same report said Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi would fly home Tuesday, Sept. 29. A day earlier, Donald Trump had said he expected talks to resume this week. Tehran. IRNA says Iran's terms, seven conditions for ending the war, were passed to Washington "via a Qatari mediator," and Iran is waiting for an answer. Washington. Trump says the US will "win" the war "very soon." Mediators are still working on a deal. (TS: for scale, the war's now in its eighth month, since the February US-Israeli strikes) Where it stands. Araghchi was still in New York on Monday, Sept. 28, meeting Qatari mediators on a revised version of Iran's seven-day plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz (the narrow sea lane out of the Persian Gulf), per Reuters. The Wall Street Journal has reported that Trump sees renewed bombing as likely after November.

PREVIOUSLY

  • June 17 — The US and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding, brokered by Pakistan with Qatar as a guarantor, to halt the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
  • June 29 — 63 of the 88 clerics on the Assembly of Experts (the body that picks the Supreme Leader) urged negotiators to hold to the previous Supreme Leader's "red lines."
  • July 8 — The memorandum collapsed when Iran fired on commercial ships in Hormuz.
  • Sept. 23 — Araghchi met Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in New York through Qatari, Pakistani and Egyptian mediators, the first indirect talks in months.
  • Sept. 26 — Trump rejected Iran's seven-day plan, which offered to reopen Hormuz within a week of a US deal. US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said Iran wanted sanctions relief and frozen assets up front.

Why the 'no plans' line may not be Tehran's final word:

  • IRNA's report rests on one anonymous "source close to the delegation," not the foreign ministry or Iran's Supreme National Security Council (the top body for defense and foreign policy).
  • Reuters reports real power sits with the Revolutionary Guard (Iran's elite military force) and the security council. The current Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is badly injured and has not appeared in public.