Tehran and London reopen the phone line: what an Araghchi–Cooper call tells us about regional diplomacy on 26 June 2026

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Desk note: Monexus is reporting this call with the framing that the contact itself is the news, not any claimed substantive breakthrough, a posture consistent with how the wire services have treated routine ministerial readouts between governments that maintain contact without active negotiation.