Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said Monday that no negotiations with the United States will take place in the coming days, and that the visit by an American delegation to Qatar is unrelated to the Iranian delegation in Doha, according to the official state announcement.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei on Monday evening denied that any talks with the United States will take place in the coming days, and rejected any connection between an American delegation's visit to Qatar and a separate Iranian technical team currently in Doha.
The denial is the latest in a rapid sequence of Iranian rebuttals of speculation about a near-term diplomatic breakthrough. At 15:15 Jerusalem on Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry — citing Baqaei — said a technical delegation would visit Qatar this week to implement a memorandum of understanding, but insisted the American visit was unrelated and that talks were not imminent. Just hours earlier, at 15:22 Jerusalem, Iranian sources cited by the Associated Press also denied that a meeting with the US was scheduled, contradicting President Trump's earlier claim that a deal was near. The Monday evening statement, while formally attributed to the same spokesman, marks the first official acknowledgment of the two delegations' simultaneous presence in Doha, making Baqaei's denial of a link more specific than the earlier, more general rebuttals.
Background context from The Zioneer's wider reporting shows a consistent pattern of Iranian officials pushing back against talk of rapid progress. On Sunday at 04:45 Jerusalem, Baqaei denied planned trips to Pakistan or Geneva and said no peace deal was in sight. On June 14 at 18:25 Jerusalem, the head of Iran's negotiating delegation, Professor Mohammad Marandi, ruled out further talks with the US. Over the past three weeks, Iran has also rejected a Qatari proposal for a trilateral meeting (June 10), and an intelligence source close to the delegation said on June 9 that Iran had sent no new proposal.
It remains unclear whether any direct or indirect channel between the American and Iranian delegations in Doha exists, despite the formal denial. The conflicting statements from Washington and Tehran — including President Trump's claim that a deal was imminent and Iran's repeated denials — continue to blur the actual status of potential nuclear talks.
8 developments
- StrongIran rejects Qatari proposal for trilateral meeting with US
- StrongIran foreign ministry says Doha delegation focusing on unfreezing assets, denies final deal talks
- StrongIranian spokesman: no trip to Pakistan or Geneva in coming days, deal not imminent
- DevelopingIranian sources tell AP: no meeting with US scheduled for tomorrow, contradicting Trump
Source and signal
- Internal intake