21/6/2025–|Last update: 16:40 (Mecca time)
The Iranian Foreign Minister warned Abbas Araqji Today, Saturday, that the United States joining Israel in its attacks on Iran will be “unfortunate and dangerous to everyone,” while the French president said Emmanuel Macron The Europeans “will speed up the pace of negotiations”.
Araqji said –In press statements on Saturday before his participation in the 51st session of the Council of Foreign Ministers Organized Islamic cooperation In Istanbul– “Diplomacy has succeeded in the past and will succeed in the future, but the aggression must be stopped so that we can return to diplomacy.”
The Iranian Foreign Minister expressed Tehran’s readiness to resolve a negotiating as in 2015 agreementAnd we realize that Israel is publicly opposed to diplomacy.
Aragali also accused the United States of “betraying diplomacy and using the negotiating paper to cover up Israeli attacks” against his country, and stressed that Tehran would not abandon uranium enrichment.
Iranian Foreign Minister: We cannot go to negotiations with the United States under bombing pic.twitter.com/hhkyEBA899
Al -Jazeera channel (@AjArabic) June 21, 2025
He was an Iraqi Indicate Until it became difficult to sit at the negotiating table with the United States to reach a diplomatic solution, in an interview with the American “NBC News” network on Friday, after his meetings with high -ranking European officials in Geneva, Switzerland.
Araqji pointed out that Israel launched air strikes on Iran two days before nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington, which was scheduled to be held on June 15.
The Iranian Foreign Minister considered that the United States is not concerned with diplomacy, and that it uses nuclear negotiations to “cover up Israeli air strikes,” adding, “We do not know how we can trust them anymore. What they did was a betrayal of diplomacy.”
Araqji stipulated the negotiations, that the Israeli air strikes stop his country to achieve this, and stressed that they will not be able to meet the US president’s demand Donald Trump “By abandoning uranium enrichment activities”
He stressed that every country has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, noting that he had informed Trump’s special actor in the Middle East Steve Witkov, repeatedly during their meetings that they “will not completely abandon” the enrichment of uranium.
He added that Iran will use its right to legitimate defense if Trump decides to intervene militarily against it, and that they will respond to the United States in the same way they responded to Israel.
Speeding negotiations
For his part, French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed during a contact with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Bouchakian Today, Saturday, the Europeans “will speed up the pace of negotiations” with Tehran under the war between Tel Aviv and Tehran.
Macron explained – in a post on the X platform – that accelerating the pace of negotiation aims to “get out of the war and avoid greater risks,” noting that he had informed Beshskian “his deep concern about the Iranian nuclear program.”
The French President reaffirmed that Tehran “cannot obtain a nuclear weapon”, and it must “provide all guarantees” to confirm that its goals of the nuclear program are peaceful.
Earlier today he said JD Vans The US Vice President believed that time began to run out in front of diplomatic solutions, noting that President Trump “will do what is necessary to end the Iranian nuclear program.”
Vans told Fox News that Trump said that he would seek a diplomatic solution to be convinced that there is no existence an opportunity So, The final decision on Iran will be taken, after Trump announced that he would give Iran to a maximum of two weeks.
Since June 13, Israel has launched widespread attacks on Iran targeting nuclear facilities, missile bases, military leaders and nuclear scientists. Tehran responded by firing ballistic missiles and drones at the Israeli depth, in the largest direct confrontation between the two sides.