Friday, June 20, 2025

No return to diplomacy amid aggression against Iran in which US is complicit: FM

 (Trump has delayed his decision on striking Iran for two weeks. Meanwhile Iran says they will not negotiate while the U.S. continues to assist Israel in their attacks. Tel Aviv is getting hit hard.)

from PressTV

Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi has ruled out diplomatic negotiations as long as the wanton aggression against the Islamic Republic continues, holding the United States complicit in it.

Speaking ahead of his visit to Geneva where he is scheduled to hold talks with his European counterparts on the Israeli aggression, Araghchi said Tehran has explicitly stated that as long as the aggression does not stop, the talk of dialogue is meaningless.

He informed that some countries have reached out to Iran in recent days and urged de-escalation and return to diplomacy.

“I respond by saying that we were in the middle of diplomacy, so what are we supposed to return to? Or the attack by the Zionist regime on nuclear facilities; no one can explain why the Westerners do not allow this aggression to be condemned,” he remarked.

“They themselves cannot explain it and only evade the question, and there is an unjustifiable support (for it),” he said, referring specifically to attack on Iran’s nuclear sites.

The top Iranian diplomat said Tehran considers Washington an accomplice of the Israeli regime in its aggression against Iran, in a reference to statements made by US President Donald Trump in support of the regime and threats against top Iranian officials.

“We have nothing to talk with the United States as a partner in this crime,” he asserted...

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