Tehran said on Monday it is keeping communications open with the U.S. as President Donald Trump weighed responses to a deadly crackdown on nationwide protests in Iran, which pose one of the stiffest challenges to clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. "What you're hearing publicly from the Iranian regime is quite different from the messages the administration is receiving privately, and I think the president has an interest in exploring those messages," she said. The ambassadors of Britain, Italy, Germany and France in Tehran were summoned to the foreign ministry, semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, and asked to relay Tehran's request to withdraw their support for the protests to their governments.
Published at: 2026-01-12 21:40:00
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