TEHRAN – The outlook for a new negotiation between Iran and the US remains dim for a foreseeable future after President Donald Trump bombed Iran during ongoing talks launched in April, with Tehran’s leaders concluded that the Republican administration has no real interest in the contract.
Multiple officials and reports revealed that Iran could no longer trust the United States. This helped Israel launch airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear, military and civilian infrastructure from June 13 to June 24. Air strikes at Iranian nuclear facilities in Natanz, Esfahan and Ford. The war advocated for Iranian lives primarily civilians, at least 1,060.
“At this point, negotiations are not on the table,” Ali Larijani, adviser to Alitra Seyed Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Revolution, said on Thursday. “Let’s make it available to our leaders when they think it’s appropriate. Not in a hurry. They fought a war against us. First, they have to explain why.”
Iran and the United States completed five rounds of indirect nuclear negotiations before the war, scheduled for the sixth round just days before Israel launched its attack. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that their goal was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, but the Western Intelligence Report and the IAEA findings contradict this justification. The IAEA report, which previously exposed allegations about Iran’s nuclear program, may report that it is set to lay the foundation for airstrikes. Analysts note that the assassination of senior Iranian military commanders and the failed attempts to kill President Masuud Pezeshkian and Ayatollah Khamenei coincided with a broader strategy to overthrow the Iranian government.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araguchi on Friday said the new round of negotiations would depend on the preparation of the other side to engage in a serious, balanced dialogue. “The new phase of consultation with the US will only happen if the other side is ready to accept certain important reality,” Araguchi said in X.
After a joint video conference with foreign ministers of France, Germany and the UK (E3), along with the European Union’s foreign policy director, Araguchi reiterated that he was not the US that abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal known as the JCPOA and abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal that escalated into a military showdown. “It was the US that left the agreement created over two years with EU support. This June, they left the negotiation table and chose to attack instead.”
Araghchi added that resuming negotiations will require a framework that will ensure “fair, balanced, mutually beneficial agreements.”
Trump has repeatedly said in recent weeks that he wants to resume talks with Iran, claiming that its nuclear presence with Iran was completely “extincted” during the 12-day war. He has yet to accurately explain what he wants to negotiate if he believes that Iran’s nuclear facilities no longer exist.
A senior Iranian official told news television that the United States is seeking negotiations in preparation for war rather than peace. “Our information shows that Washington wants consultations to lay the foundation for war, in which case we would prefer to waste time and focus on defensive preparations,” the official said. Reported that Iran will not return to diplomacy, TV reported without a “serious and practical guarantee” that it will not use the process as a cover for security threats.