CNN reported Wednesday that President Donald Trump ordered senior administration envoys to cease ongoing talks with Iran, according to a senior American official. The report provides new official confirmation of the policy shift.
CNN reported early Wednesday that President Donald Trump ordered senior administration envoys to halt ongoing talks with Iran, citing a senior American official. The report provides an on-the-record confirmation of the policy shift that was first disclosed by The Zioneer on Tuesday.
The Zioneer reported at 19:59 Tuesday that Trump had ordered a halt to US-Iran talks and that Washington was shifting to a 'strangle over time' strategy of gradual pressure. Simultaneously, The Zioneer reported that the directive applies across all diplomatic channels. The CNN account confirms that development through an American official, who stated that the president instructed envoys to stop their discussions with Tehran, moving the story from an initial report to an official confirmation.
The directive comes after a volatile period in US-Iran relations, during which Trump had warned of limited time for negotiations and threatened 'massive action' if talks failed, as The Zioneer reported on July 27. The halt suspends a diplomatic track that had briefly opened following a cycle of direct kinetic confrontation between Washington and Tehran earlier this summer.
No official statement has been released by the White House or the Iranian government. The reasons for the halt and its potential duration remain unclear, as does Tehran's response to the directive.
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