Tehran rejected direct negotiations with the United States after Trump’s message, the Iranian president says

The President of Iran, Masoud Bezishian, said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic rejected direct negotiations with the United States in response to A message sent Trump’s president earlier this month On the basis of the rapid advanced nuclear program in the country. This was the first official response to Tehran to Mr. Trump’s message.

“Although the possibility of direct negotiations between the two sides has been rejected in this response, it has been emphasized that the path of indirect negotiations is still open,” Bizishian said, adding that Iran’s response was delivered through the Sultanate of Oman.

However, it is not clear whether Mr. Trump will accept indirect negotiations. The indirect negotiations have not succeeded for years since Mr. Trump initially withdrew the United States from Tehran’s nuclear deal with global powers in 2018.

The White House did not provide any immediate reaction to the advertisement.

Mr. Trump revealed in an interview with Fox Business News earlier this month that he had sent a message to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urging him to negotiate and warn of possible military action if he refuses.

“I prefer negotiating a deal,” said Mr. Trump. “But the time is now. It is time. Something will happen in one way or another. I hope Iran – I have written a message to him, saying:” I hope you negotiate. “If we have to enter militarily, it will be terrible – for them.”

On Sunday, in an interview with the registered NBC News before Pezeshkian’s comments, Mr. Trump repeated that he was considering military action and secondary definitions if Iran does not agree to a nuclear agreement.

“If they do not hold a deal, there will be a bombing and this will lead to bombing likes unprecedented before,” he said.

Outor, Mr. Trump, comes at a time when Israel and the United States warned that they would not allow Iran to approval of a nuclear weapon, which leads to fears of a military confrontation as Tehran enriches uranium at levels of weapons close-a matter that was only done by atomic armed states.

Iran has long maintained its program for peaceful purposes, even with the increasing threat of its officials to follow the bomb because the tensions are high with the United States because of its sanctions and after the ceasefire collapsed in Israel The war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

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.

A Last month’s report By the United Nations Nuclear Control Agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency said that Iran “has increased significantly from production and the accumulating high enriched uranium.”

Last week, my cloud Warning against American threats against his country “They will not get them anywhere,” adding that the Americans and others should know that if they do anything malicious for the Iranian nation, they will get a difficult slap. “

It had already been Rejection of Mr. Trump’s initiatives For the talks, the American president was accused of trying to deceive world public opinion by photographing the United States as being ready to negotiate and Iran as unwilling to participate.

Mr. Trump’s first state was distinguished in his position in a particularly turbulent period in relations with Tehran. In 2018, the United States was one -side withdrawn the Iranian nuclear deal with the global authorities, which led to sanctions on the Iranian economy. Iran has averages by attacks on the sea – including attacks that are likely to carry out and that oil production in Saudi Arabia is temporarily temporarily.

Trump also ordered the attack that killed the best general in Iran in a strike in Baghdad in January 2020.