Vance Sends Letter to Iran Seeking to Revive Talks

U.S. Vice President JD Vance sent Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei a letter seeking to reopen diplomatic channels between Washington and Tehran, according to reporting based on U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter. The outreach was made at President Donald Trump’s direction, and Trump was aware of it, the report said. The initiative is intended to test whether the two governments can find enough common ground to persuade Trump not to order a short, intensive attack on Iran in the coming weeks, according to the reported account. It comes as the United States and Iran remain at odds over Tehran’s nuclear program and the terms of any broader agreement. Rezaei is secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The reported letter represents an effort to revive negotiations that have stalled, but the supplied accounts do not include the letter itself or establish whether Rezaei received or answered it. They also do not confirm that talks have resumed. The potential negotiations would address competing priorities. One account described Washington as seeking nuclear concessions and Tehran as seeking...