Muhammad Bakr Kalibaf, the chairman of the Islamic Council, in a conversation with the Al Jazeera news channel, announced that there has been no change in the composition of Iran's negotiating team, and he is still in charge of this team and monitoring the negotiations.
In response to the question of whether he is still in charge of the negotiating team, Glibaf said: "There has been no change. This is one of the nonsense that Americans are constantly watching on channels and by different people. Sometimes they say we don't know who to talk to in Iran. Everything is clear and they know who to talk to."
Pointing out that Iran's negotiating team has 6 members, he added: "The responsibility of this team is mine and I am still in charge of the negotiations. It is natural that decisions on basic national and international issues are made in the Supreme National Security Council and these decisions are approved by the leader of the Islamic Republic, but the responsibility of the negotiations, the negotiations follow the negotiation team and the issues.
The chairman of the Islamic Council described these statements as part of what he called "psychological operations" and "intellectualism" by the Americans.
These statements are made after the publication of the news that J. Dee Vance, Vice President of the United States, sent a letter to Mohsen Razai, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Ismail Baka'i, the spokesman for the Islamic Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also emphasized to reporters on Monday, November 2, that Mohammad Bakr Kalibaf is still Iran's chief negotiator. At the same time, he said that given that the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council is the recipient of Vance's letter, it is his responsibility to decide on the merits and how to respond to it.