Baghaei: No Trilateral Meeting Held in China; Halting War in Lebanon Is a Condition of Any Understanding

Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (12 Aban 1405), on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran, that the trip to Beijing by the deputy secretary of the Supreme National Security Council was bilateral and that, "as far as I know, no trilateral meeting has been held". He was responding to reports of a meeting among Iran, China and Oman.

Baghaei said Tehran takes part in any diplomatic process with "maximum caution and complete pessimism" because, he said, the United States attacked Iran twice in under a year while talks were under way. He added that any understanding must include a commitment to halt the war on all fronts, including Lebanon, and that Qatari and Pakistani mediation continues. These are the Iranian government spokesman's positions; the US side did not comment in this report.