The Trump-friendly businessman is reportedly working to “defuse” tensions between Washington and Tehran
US President-elect Donald Trump’s close ally, tech billionaire Elon Musk, has met with the Iranian ambassador to the UN earlier this week, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two unnamed Iranian officials.
According to the Times, Musk meeting with Amir Saeid Iravani took place in New York on Monday and was described by the paper’s Iranian sources as an attempt to “defuse tensions” between the US and Iran. The conversation was “positive” and “good news,” Iranian sources said.
Musk, who owns SpaceX, Tesla and the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), has not commented on the matter. Trump’s spokesman, Steven Cheung, told the Times that the president-elect would not comment on “reports of private meetings that did or did not occur.” The Iranian mission to the UN declined to comment, according to the…
