Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has secretly informed US envoy Steve Witkoff that Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei approved talks and a potential deal, Al Arabiya reported on Tuesday, citing Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.
Khamenei, sources told the paper, has agreed to negotiate with the US and reach an agreement.
The sources added that the supreme leader, who was appointed after his father Ali Khamenei was killed in the opening strike of the US-Isael war on Iran last month, agreed to end the war quickly in accordance with Iran’s conditions. 
Trump on Monday postponed a threat to bomb the Islamic Republic’s power grid because of what he described as productive talks with Iranian officials.
He said the talks — which Iran denies are taking place — were being conducted with a “top person” but not the country’s supreme leader.
