Tehran: Iran’s top security chief on Monday categorically denied reports that he had initiated a new diplomatic push to restart nuclear negotiations with the United States following the death of the country’s supreme leader.

Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, dismissed the claims as unfounded after U.S. media outlets reported that Tehran was seeking an urgent de-escalation through international intermediaries.

“We will not negotiate with the United States,” Larijani wrote in a brief, definitive post on the social media platform X.

The statement was a direct rebuttal to a report by The Wall Street Journal, which alleged that Larijani had utilised Omani mediators to reach out to Washington in the hours following the Saturday airstrike that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

With inputs from AP