Have Iran and the US agreed to negotiate?

Pars Today - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran emphasized: So far, no promise or arrangement has been made for negotiations with the US.

According to Pars Today, quoting IRIB News Agency, Iran's Foreign Minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, announced on Thursday in "the News Special Interview" program that so far, no promise or arrangement has been made for negotiations with the US.

Araghchi stated that Iran's policy for entering negotiations was precise, calculated, and intelligent, noting: We announced that we are not against diplomacy and negotiation, but we will not play on the field defined by the other side. Instead of direct negotiation, we proposed indirect negotiation and changed the conditions of negotiation in our favor. With this approach, we entered negotiations whose rules we had set ourselves.

Araghchi, referring to the recent aggressions of the Zionist regime and the US against Iran and stating that enemies applied all kinds of pressures to deprive the Iranian people of their rights and nuclear rights, added: All Iranians unitedly defended the country.

He emphasized that Iran is alien to the word surrender, saying: This steadfastness will remain in Iran's history because a nuclear superpower and a nuclear-armed regime and all Europeans mobilized and helped each other to break and surrender the Islamic Republic of Iran and its people, to end an almost 50-year struggle against US hegemony, but they did not succeed.

Araghchi, referring to the fact that these 12 days will be recorded in history as a symbol of a nation's resistance, and that there was full coordination between the field and diplomacy in Iran, said: Our policy was that if the enemy stopped without preconditions, Iran would also cease its reactions.

The Iranian Foreign Minister added: Where is international law, where are international rules? Not even one statement has been issued against the Zionist regime in the Human Rights Council.

Araghchi also noted that it was the Zionist regime that requested a halt to operations, stating: In the tweet I published, it was mentioned that we do not accept a ceasefire, because a ceasefire is the product of a negotiation or the result of an agreement between two parties to halt operations, after dialogue and negotiation. We do not accept any ceasefire or halt to operations in the agreed sense. However, if the Zionist regime does not continue its attacks, we also have no intention of continuing. That is, in fact, what we accepted. Further decisions will be made subsequently.

He emphasized: We informed the Zionist regime that Iran is not Lebanon, and any violation of the ceasefire will be responded to quickly and precisely.

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