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Iran-EU phone call: contact confirmed, substance withheld

7/28/2026

Senior contact between Tehran and Brussels is apparently intact.

Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, held a telephone conversation with Kaja Kallas, the EU's foreign policy chief, to discuss regional developments, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

The risk is in reading more into the call than the source will bear. What the IRNA report says The Islamic Republic News Agency's account is spare. Two senior officials spoke, and the topic was regional developments.

That brevity is itself worth noting: Tehran chose to confirm the contact publicly while disclosing almost nothing about its content.

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