Khamenei aide says US approached him in Kabul seeking talks with Iran
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DUBAI - A close aide to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday U.S. officials had approached him during a visit he made last month to Afghanistan to request talks with Tehran, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Tensions between arch foes, Iran and the United States, have increased since last May, when President Donald Trump pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers, and then reimposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic that had been lifted under the terms of the pact.
"During my visit to Kabul last month, the Americans... asked to hold talks," the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, was quoted as saying, without specifying what the U.S. side wanted to discuss.
U.S. officials were not immediately available to comment on the report.
