NEW YORK, November 15. /TASS/. US tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Iran’s Iran’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani have met to discuss ways of easing tensions between Iran and the United States, The New York Times wrote citing anonymous sources.

According to the report, the meeting took place in New York on Monday and lasted for more than an hour. NYT sources described the meeting as "positive" and "good news." Musk is widely viewed as the most powerful private citizen in Trump’s transition team, The New York Times said.

The Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations has declined a TASS request for a comment on the issue. Karoline Leavitt, the transition spokeswoman for the incoming Trump-Vance administration, said in a statement that the American people had re-elected Trump because they trust him to "restore peace through strength around the world." "When he returns to the White House, he will take the necessary action to do just that," she added.

Washington and Tehran could eventually conclude a diplomatic deal during Donald Trump’s second tenure as US president, despite "the mutual hostility," The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on November 8. Meanwhile, officials told The WSJ that the president-elect plans to drastically increase the sanctions pressure on Iran and stifle its oil trade. Chinese ports that receive Iranian crude could also be targeted, according to the report.

Earlier, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Iran was planning to expand partnership with its neighbors and other Islamic countries and that Tehran was indifferent to the result of the US election. Iran considers Russia to be among its neighbors.