Iran refuses any negotiations with the United States as long as Washington continues its threats and military moves. Minister Arákči denied President Trump’s statements about Iran’s interest in negotiating.
Iran refuses to negotiate with the United States while it is being threatened, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araki said on Wednesday. At the same time, he denied that Iran had expressed an interest in talks, as claimed by US President Donald Trump. TASR informs about it according to the report of the AFP agency.
Trump has threatened Iran with military intervention to quell widespread anti-government protests that have claimed more than 6,000 lives since the end of December, according to the US-based human rights group HRANA.
Tensions between the US and Iran
The protests have since stopped, and according to the head of the White House, Tehran is interested in a diplomatic solution to the tense situation with the US. However, Washington has moved a strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to the Middle East in recent days in case Trump finally decides to take action against Iran. The US president announced on Tuesday that “another” fleet of ships was heading to the area. However, it was not immediately clear whether he was referring to the strike group mentioned or other US forces.
“Diplomacy through military threats cannot be effective or useful. If they want the negotiations to take a concrete form, they must certainly abandon threats, excessive demands and raising illogical questions,” Arakhchi said on Iranian television. According to him, it is impossible to talk about negotiations in an “atmosphere of threats”.
Turkey’s response to the conflict
Iran’s foreign minister also said he had not made any contact with Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff in recent days and that Iran had not asked for talks with the United States.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan also commented on the possible intervention of the United States in Iran on Wednesday. “It is wrong to attack Iran. It is wrong to start a war again. Iran is ready to negotiate again on the nuclear issue,” he said. He instructed the United States to negotiate with the Iranians on individual issues one by one. “Start with the nuclear issue and close it. Then move on to the others,” the head of Turkish diplomacy added.
