{"id":428566,"date":"2026-03-17T02:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-and-iran-have-been-in-direct-contact-in-recent-days-report\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:40:16","slug":"us-and-iran-have-been-in-direct-contact-in-recent-days-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/us-and-iran-have-been-in-direct-contact-in-recent-days-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Iran have been in direct contact in recent days &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/16\/iran-war-us-communication-witkoff-araghchi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A direct communications channel between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been reactivated in recent days, according to a U.S. official and a source with knowledge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump today said they weren&#8217;t talking about a deal but it would make sense that both sides would at least want to establish some channels.<\/p>\n<p>The Axios report says it&#8217;s not clear how substantive the messages passed were but they&#8217;re the first known communication.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign min has repeatedly tweeted throughout the war.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iran has neither sought a truce nor talks. Such claims are delusional.<\/p>\n<p>Our Powerful Armed Forces will keep firing until POTUS realizes that illegal war he&#8217;s imposing on both Americans and Iranians is wrong and must never be repeated. Victims must also be compensated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone talks tough until it&#8217;s time to make a deal, so I wouldn&#8217;t read too much into that. What&#8217;s less clear is whether Araghchi and the government have control of the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios reports: A direct communications channel between U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been reactivated in recent days, according to a U.S. official and a source with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}