Tehran denies a planned Vance–Rezaei meeting
Turkish National Intelligence Organization chief Ibrahim Kalın told a conference that U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei were expected to meet next week in Doha, Qatar. He described the proposed meeting as an important opportunity for a breakthrough in negotiations.
A senior Iranian security official told Press TV that reports of a potential meeting were “off the table”. The official said Tehran’s negotiating position would remain unchanged unless Washington agreed to Iran’s seven conditions.
Rezaei said:
“U.S. claims about continued negotiations with Iran and a meeting in Qatar are completely false. We have asked the Americans to provide a clear and explicit response to our conditions, but they have not done so yet. Claims that a meeting is being planned between me and JD Vance are also completely false and baseless”.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said:
“The Supreme Leader ordered us to put an end to the situation of neither war nor peace. We can negotiate with dignity and resolve the issue with dignity”.
Kalın also said Turkish President Erdogan had urged President Trump during a phone call on Saturday not to launch another round of strikes against Iran. Kalın warned that another U.S. attack could trigger a renewed cycle of escalating violence across the region.
Iranian officials issue warnings to Washington
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf said:
“Israelis are working overtime to drag the US into an endless war with Iran, a quagmire that no president, now or in the future, Republican or Democrat, could escape. Unless Washington drops the ‘Israel First’ mindset, America and its allies are headed straight for a dark age”.
Rezaei said:
“The war on Iran has already wrecked the US government. But Washington flails like a desperate gambler.
Fold your hand. Stop manufacturing fake news about imaginary talks.
Stop denying the West Asian new order. Time to surrender to the seven conditions Iran has repeatedly set out”.
Russian intelligence delegation reportedly meets Israeli officials
Russian military transport aircraft carrying a senior delegation led by Admiral Igor Kostyukov landed at Ben Gurion Airport for an unusual visit, The Jerusalem Post reported, citing two sources familiar with the visit. Accounts of the arrival differ between Saturday evening and Sunday evening.
Kostyukov heads the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, commonly known as the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency. The delegation met senior Israeli defense officials, but the purpose of the visit and the subjects discussed remain unclear.
The visit took place during heightened regional tensions and uncertainty over the possibility of renewed military confrontation involving the U.S., Israel and Iran.
According to the report, the aircraft and delegation departed Israel on Monday for Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, where they were due to participate in U.S.-mediated Russian-Ukrainian negotiations scheduled for November 10–11.
Balkanweb also reported the possibility that the Russian aircraft was being used to evacuate Russian diplomats and their families, but noted that this had not been officially confirmed.
