In this photo issued by the Iranian presidential office, President Masoud Bezishian speaks during a period of celebration of the anniversary of the year 1979 that overthrew the late Shah Shah Muhammad Reda Bahlafi and brought the Islamic clerics to power, in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, 1025, 2025.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates – The Iranian President said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic rejected direct negotiations with the United States because of its advanced nuclear program, as it presented Tehran’s first response to a letter sent by President Donald Trump to the country’s supreme leader.
President Masoud Bezishian said that Iran’s response, which was delivered through the Sultanate of Oman, has left open to indirect negotiations with Washington. However, such talks did not make any progress since his first term that withdrew America unilaterally from the Tehran nuclear deal with global powers in 2018.
In the following years, regional tensions erupted into attacks at sea and on the ground. Then came the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip, which witnessed the leaders of a group of militants in Israel through the “axis of the resistance” in Iran. Now, since the United States is conducting extensive air strikes targeting the Iranian -backed Houthi rebels, the threat of military action targeting the Iranian nuclear program is still on the table.
“We do not avoid talks,” Pizichane said in televised notes during the cabinet meeting. “They must prove that they can build confidence.”
The White House, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other officials did not provide any immediate reaction to the announcement. However, Trump said before Pezeshkian’s comments that he was considering military action and secondary definitions if Iran did not agree with a nuclear agreement.
“If they don’t have a deal, there will be a bombing and will bomb an unprecedented proverbs before,” Trump said in a comment that was broadcast on Sunday by NBC News.
Iran’s position is harder after Trump’s message
After Pezeshkian announced that the decision indicates the amount that has changed in Iran since his election half a year ago after he made a promise to re -engage with the West.
Since Trump was elected and his “maximum pressure” campaign resumed on Tehran, Iran has entered the free fall. Pezeshkian left open conversations until the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamna, fell in February and warned the talks “not smart, wise or supervisor” with his administration. Then the Iranian president tightened his statements immediately on the United States
Meanwhile, there were mixed messages coming from Iran for weeks. Videos from Jerusalem, or Jerusalem, the daytime demonstrations on Friday that people in the crowd teach the participants only the screaming: “Death to Israel!” Usually, he also heard “death to America”.
A video of an underground missile base that unveiled the Iranian semi-military guard also showed its forces, which fired an Israeli flag drawn on the ground-although there is often an American flag in these propaganda videos.
But Press TV, the Iranian governmental English TV arm, published an article last week that included the list of US bases in the Middle East as possible targets of the attack. The Camp Thunder Cove menu included Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, where the United States is based on the B-2 launcher that is likely to be used in Yemen.
On Friday, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bajir Salibaf warned: “The Americans know themselves how weak they are.” “If they violate the sovereignty of Iran, it will be a spark in the gunpowder, which will make the entire region. In such a scenario, their bases and allies will not be safe.”
However, two direct attacks in Tehran caused Israel with ballistic missiles and drones in little damage, while Israel responded to the destruction of Iranian air defense systems.
Iran’s refusal is the latest in tensions on the nuclear program
Trump’s message arrived in Tehran on March 12. Although he announced that he had written in a television interview, Trump provided a few details about what he told him exactly the supreme leader.
“I wrote a message to them,” I hope you negotiate because if we have to enter militarily, it would be a terrible thing, “Trump said in the interview.
This step recalled the writing of Trump’s messages to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in his first term, which led to face -to -face meetings but there are no deals for restriction
The last time Trump tried to send a message to my crude, through the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the leader of this effort mocked this effort.
Trump’s message came at a time when Israel and the United States warned that they would not allow Iran for a nuclear weapon, which led to fears of a military confrontation as Tehran enriches uranium at levels close to weapons of 60 %-which was only done by atomic armed states.
Iran has long maintained its program for peaceful purposes, even with increasingly threatening its officials to follow the bomb. However, a report in February by the United Nations International Nuclear Energy Agency said that Iran had accelerated its production of uranium near weapons.
Iran is likely to hesitate to deal with Trump most likely in his order with the attack that killed Iranian general Qassem Solimani in the Baghdad drone in January 2020. The United States said that Iran was planning to assassinate Trump before his election in November, which Tehran rejected despite his threat.