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Veep affirms Tehran opts for negotiations from ‘position of strength’
He made the remarks in a meeting with several professors from Sharif University in Tehran.
Aref also underlined that there is no difference between the country’s diplomatic apparatus and Armed Forces in this regard.
His remarks came as the country’s officials are considering the resumption of nuclear talks following the last month aggression by the Israeli regime and the US on Iran just days before a the six round of negotiations between Tehran and Washington.
Ali Larijani, a senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, has told Al-Jazeera TV Channel that Iran has received messages from the US on the resumption of talks, saying Tehran is studying them. “After the [Israeli-US] war, we have no trust in the US at all,” Larijani said in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV Channel.
"The theory of the US, led by [President Donald] Trump, is based on the principle that you either surrender or enter into war,” Larijani said.
He added that a new “Middle East” is emerging, which would be a “resilient and independent” region.
On a separate occasion, Larijani said on Friday the US president and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are pursuing a reactionary theory of “peace through strength” and noted, "This is the same perspective that all the bloodthirsty individuals in history have had, and it is nothing new."
Larijani said the US has inflicted damage and caused massacres in the international scene, but the people of Palestine and Gaza did not surrender.
“Iran, under the wise leadership of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, responded decisively and did not allow this theory to manifest in our country. Therefore, Trump's theory has failed,” he added.