Tehran on Sunday ruled out the possibility of direct conversations with Washington, time after US President Donald Trump said he was opened to speaking with Iranian officials without brokers.
Egyptian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi dismissed the present as “meaningless”, citing ongoing US hazards and what he called a contravention of international standards.
” Direct agreements may be irrelevant with a group that continually threatens to resort to power in violation of the UN charter”, Araghchi said in a statement released by Iran’s foreign government. He also said that conflicting jobs from American officials just further complicate confidence.
” Iran keeps itself prepared for all possible or conceivable occurrences, and just as it is critical in politics and discussions, it will also be significant and major in defending its national interests and sovereignty”, Araghchi added.
Trump, speaking on Thursday, had said he preferred strong deals. ” I think it goes faster and you understand the other side a lot better than if you go through middlemen”, he argued.
A day earlier, Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian also said Iran was opened to dialogue—but solely on similar terms. ” If you want conversations, then what is the place of threatening”? he asked, referring to Trump’s new hazard to bomb Iran if politics fails. Pezeshkian also accused the United States of “humiliating” no merely Iran but even the rest of the world through its foreign policy decisions.
Iranian authorities made it clear they will not provide discussions under stress. ” The Islamic Republic of Iran wants speech on similar footing”, Pezeshkian said, without specifying whether strong deals were on the table.
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The change come amid a renewed diplomatic and military conflict between the two places. On Saturday, Hossein Salami, nose of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, said Iran was “ready for any war”, although it would never begin one.
Conflicts remain high following the US’s 2018 removal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the re-imposition of punishment. Iran, in turn, scaled back its conformity with the deal and increased its nuclear actions.
