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Musk met Iran UN ambassador on defusing tension under Trump: Report

The meeting was described by Iranian sources as "positive," according to a NYT report

by · Gulf News

New York: Elon Musk, the tech billionaire closely allied with US President-elect Donald Trump, met Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in a bid to defuse tensions in the next administration, The New York Times reported Thursday.

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The newspaper quoted anonymous Iranian sources as describing the meeting between the world's richest person and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani as "positive."