Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he is receiving direct messages from U.S. envoy Stephen Whitcoff.
According to Reuters on the 31st (local time), Minister Araghchi acknowledged in an interview with Al Jazeera that he had received messages from envoy Whitcoff.
The messages are being exchanged through a third party and are said to include threatening messages and conversations at the level of exchanging each other's views.
As military tensions between the United States and Iran reach a peak, attention is on the fact that a communication channel between senior officials of the two countries is operating.
However, Minister Araghchi dismissed it, saying, "This does not mean official 'negotiations.'"
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