Iran is questioning its «trust» in the United States to engage in nuclear talks as Tehran has refused to restart negotiations until Israel halts its attacks.
Iran is questioning its “trust” in the US to engage in nuclear talks as Tehran has refused to restart negotiations until Israel halts its attacks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi accused the Trump administration of using nuclear negotiations as a cover for Israel’s airstrikes on the country’s nuclear program, claiming the attacks came just two days before a new round of talks between US and Iranian officials were set to start.
“So they had perhaps this plan in their mind, and they just needed negotiations perhaps to cover it up,” Araqchi said Friday in an interview with NBC News.
“We don’t know how we can trust them anymore. What they did was, in fact, a betrayal of diplomacy.”
He vowed that negotiations would cease as long as Israel’s “aggression continues,” flatly rejecting Trump’s demands to scrap its uranium enrichment and balking at his “two week” deadline to reach a deal.
