Follow the. The talks between Iran and the US held this Sunday in Bürgenstock (Switzerland) have suffered an unexpected turn. The Iranian delegation has decided abandon after new threats launched by US President Donald Trump, as reported by the official Iranian agency IRNA and which has been echoed EFE.
The rupture occurred when both parties were maintaining contacts, with the mediation of Qatar and Pakistan, to advance the application of the memorandum of understanding signed days ago and address the end of hostilities on different fronts in the Middle East, including the .
Tehran abandons the negotiation after Trump’s statements
According to information released by IRNA, the Iranian representation left the headquarters of the talks after meeting with the Qatari mediator.
The decision comes just hours after Trump publicly warned that E
The US would attack Iran again “with great force” if Tehran fails to prevent the actions of its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah.
In one, the US president also sent a message about a possible closure of the Strait of Hormuz, stating that, if that happened, “they would no longer have a country and would not even be able to return to their own,” in apparent reference to the Iranian negotiators.
Iran responds that it is prepared for any scenario
Trump’s threats were responded to by the president of the Iranian Parliament and head of the negotiating team, Mohamad Baqer Qalibaf, who assured that the country’s Armed Forces are prepared to react to any action from Washington.
The Iranian leader minimized the scope of the US warnings and stated that “You better watch your statements”adding that “no matter how much they talk, it is we who act.”
A process that had begun with optimism
The meetings had started in the morning with separate meetings between the delegations and the mediating countries before holding a multilateral session.
The main objective was advance the implementation of the memorandum of understanding signed last weekespecially regarding the end of hostilities in different regional theaters and Iranian demands to end the war on all fronts, including Lebanon.
Before Trump’s threats and the subsequent Iranian withdrawal emerged, US Vice President JD Vance, who heads the Washington delegation in the talks, had assured that “great progress” was being made in the negotiations.
