Over the weekend, White House envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff met with Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran's last shah, in a rare high-level contact between the Trump administration and a prominent figure in Iran's opposition as mass protests continue to shake the country, according to a senior U.S. official who spoke to Axios.
The discussion first reported Tuesday focused on the protest movement and the opposition's read of events inside Iran. The gathering was described as the first known high-level engagement between the Trump administration and an Iranian opposition figure since the current wave of demonstrations began.
