Pezeshkian: Return to talks conditioned on ‘trust in dialogue process’
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the Islamic Republic has no problem with re-entering talks with the United States on its peaceful nuclear program but the decision is contingent upon confidence-building measures throughout the negotiation process so that the Israeli regime will not be authorized to launch new aggression on Iranian soil.
Before Israel’s US-backed war on the Islamic Republic on June 13, Tehran and Washington held five rounds of indirect talks mediated by the Sultanate of Oman, which were hailed by both sides as “positive” and “moving forward.”
The talks were shelved after the full-scale aggression which spiraled onto a whole new level by the US bombing of the three Iranian nuclear facilities of Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan on June 22 as part of an aerial offensive, codenamed Midnight Hammer.
The assault was shortly reciprocated by Iran’s daring strikes on the Qatar-based al-Udeid Airbase, the largest American military base in the region.
“We have no problem with negotiations. However, the atrocities that the Zionist regime has perpetrated in the region and our country, including the assassination and martyrdom of our commanders in their homes – which is considered a war crime – and the martyrdom of our scientists along with their families and children, the killing of innocents, and the bombing of pregnant women, have exacerbated the situation. To kill one person, the Zionist regime has torn down a building on people!” Pezeshkian said.
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