A senior Trump administration official said Sunday that the planned US-Iran talks in Switzerland this weekend are still on, contradicting a Wall Street Journal report claiming they were canceled due to mutual strikes in the Persian Gulf. The official's statement is the first on-record confirmation from the US side since the Journal's report.
A senior Trump administration official stated Sunday evening that US-Iran talks planned for this weekend in Switzerland remain on schedule, directly contradicting a Wall Street Journal report that said they were canceled after an overnight exchange of fire between the two countries in the Gulf.
The official's remark is the first on-record US confirmation or denial of the talks' status since the WSJ report emerged earlier Sunday. Hours earlier, the Journal reported that the talks had been called off, citing a single unnamed source. The new statement from the administration official — also unnamed — appears to walk that back, though neither side has issued a formal public announcement.
The talks, which have been repeatedly delayed in recent weeks over Iranian conditions, Israeli military operations, and mutual recriminations, were most recently reported by Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday as postponed to a later date without a new time frame set. The Iranian position has linked prior disruptions to Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, but the administration official's statement Sunday suggests the Swiss round may yet proceed as originally planned.
As The Zioneer reported earlier Sunday, the WSJ's cancellation report was based on a single source and was not corroborated by official statements from either Washington or Tehran. The current status remains uncertain: the US official says the talks are on, while the Journal report — and the absence of any formal announcement from the White House or State Department — leaves the question open.
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