Iran's Araghchi Denies Contacting Witkoff Amid Ceasefire Dispute

Uh, finally, I want to just ask you about, um, Iran's position on how this war ends.

Of course, senior military officials in Iran have said that, um, Iran is going to,

going to determine, uh, when the, when the war ends. Um, yesterday, I reported that,

uh, Steve Witkoff has been sending text messages to Foreign Minister

Abbas Araghchi,

and that the Iranian side had not responded to Witkoff's text messages.

And, uh, and I based this on sources in Tehran,

uh, in the Iranian government that were telling me this.

And they also said that messages had been sent through third-party countries,

trying to appeal to Iran to

speak to the Americans and start discussing a ceasefire. The White House reacted

very angrily to

my report, and they denounced me.

They called Drop Site News abhorrent,

and they said that we are engaging in America Last behavior,

and they attacked us for interviewing Iranian officials.

They then leaked their own spun version

of the story to Barak Ravid of Axios,

and they said the opposite is true, that actually, uh, Abbas Araghchi has been

texting Steve Witkoff,

and that the Americans don't want to,

uh, talk to Iran right now, even though Trump,

Trump has been saying the Iranians are begging.

Then the Foreign Minister of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, publicly came out and said,

"I have not written to Steve Witkoff at all,

and I haven't been in contact with him since his boss decided

to launch this war in the middle of supposed

negotiations." Now...