By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-16 13:10:35 | Updated at 2024-11-16 16:04:27
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Iranian official met with Musk in a possible step to ease tensions with Trump
AP ^ | 11/16/24 | Mathew Lee
Posted on 11/16/2024 5:10:13 AM PST by hardspunned
WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran successfully sought a meeting with Elon Musk, according to a U.S. official, one in a series of steps that appeared aimed at easing tensions with President-elect Donald Trump.
Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani met with Musk — a Trump ally named this week to advise his administration on ways to cut the federal government — on Monday in New York, according to a U.S. official briefed on the meeting by a foreign colleague.
The official said he had been informed that the discussion covered a variety of topics, most notably Iran’s nuclear program, its support for anti-Israel groups throughout the Middle East and prospects for improved relations with the United States.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a non-U.S. governmental meeting, said no immediate decisions were taken by either side. The official said the Iranians sought the meeting with Musk, the world’s richest man, and that it did not take place at the Iranian mission to the U.N.
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The master deal maker at work! I’ve been saying this since the election, Trump will do a Nixon/China gambit to save Israel from the no win situation it is in. Short of nukes, Iran can’t be defeated. The evidence from 10/1 and 10/25 makes that perfectly clear.
Trump has said he wants to negotiate with Iran. Trump’s only poison pill would be an Iranian nuclear weapons program. The Iranians DON’T want nukes. The Iranians don’t like being in a position with Israel where they actually need nukes.
We elected the ultimate deal maker. Watch him work his magic.
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