Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Monday that direct talks with the US would be possible if Washington showed that it was not hostile toward Tehran.
“We are not hostile towards the US. They should end their hostility towards us by showing their goodwill in practice,” Pezeshkian said at a press conference. “We are brothers with the Americans as well.”
Pezeshkian made the comments when asked if he would consider direct talks with the US to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, which the Trump administration withdrew from in 2018.
The Iranian leader also reiterated Iran’s stance that it’s not seeking nuclear weapons. He said Iran is only enriching uranium at 60% purity, which is still below the 90% needed for weapons-grade, in response to the US tearing up the JCPOA, which limited Iranian enrichment at 3.67%.
“I think, we said many times, we don’t want to do this at all. We want to solve our technical and scientific needs, we are not looking for nuclear weapons,” Pezeshkian said. “We adhered to the framework written in the (nuclear deal). We are still looking to maintain those frameworks. They tore them, they forced us to do something.”
Iran increased uranium enrichment to 60% in 2021 following an Israeli sabotage attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, which was timed to sabotage indirect negotiations between Washington and Tehran.
Pezeshkian, who took office in July, pledged during his campaign that he would negotiate with the US and other Western countries to work toward sanctions relief. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appeared to give him the green light to pursue talks, saying last month that there was “no harm” in engaging with “the enemy.”
While Pezeshkian is willing to talk, it’s unlikely he will have a willing partner in the US, at least anytime soon. The Biden administration isn’t expected to make any changes before the November election and continues to increase sanctions on Iran.
The previous Trump administration took a hardline toward the Islamic Republic, and former President Trump and his vice president pick, JD Vance, have made hawkish comments on Iran while on the campaign trail.
Also… the future US leaders would be in the same boat…! Therefore, Pezeshkian effort to revive a new JCPOA is a long shot…!
Moreover, Iran would definitely bring Israeli clause into any potential future deal with US/E3 which would be a no no for US…!
Since Eisenhower to the present and counting. The problem is the strategic alignment of Iran with Russia. How many ways do we get our war with Russia. There are men (and women) in D.C. who have high IQ's, had superb SATs, have doctorates, on the surface are extremely intelligent. At the same time THEY ARE STUPID! It would appear that they actually believe there is a benefit to be gained through irradiating the world, that they would be able to emerge from their bunkers, plant seeds from the doomsday cave and live happily ever after. As the Forest Gump character said (in the movie, of course); "STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES".
This feels like a betrayal of the Palestinians??
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Their promised response to Israeli aggression seems to have been cancelled, … and now this friendly sounding overture to a nation actively perpetrating a genocide.
Very well said!
Their "promised response" is cancelled. The price is too high. Iran does not care about the Palestinians. Iran only uses the Palestinians to promote Iran's goals.
I see, you mean like Israel use Americans.
Whatever the relationship of Israel and American, does not change that fact Iran does not care about the Palestinians. Most countries don't care about Palestinians. Do you think South Africa cares about Palestinians? Of course not, their ruling political party needed a distraction form the 40% un employment problem they are facing. It did not work, they still lost the elections.
S. Africa and Iran aren’t germane, whereas Israel could not exist without US taxpayer picking up the tab. They’re a parasite, and, far from grateful, the eternal victim, force a Holocaust Museum on us, and eternally and idiotically are forever on the lookout to accuse us of antisemitism. Well, as Ann Coulter would say, the guilt bank is closed.
In the end, The mullahs, the Saudis and Turkey’s Erdogan will just bark but won’t bite. So why shouldn’t Israel get away with much more. If a dog doesn’t bite, just keep clubbing over the head until it dies.
Ye, but (1) each of these countries has a significant population deeply effected by the genocide and the humiliation of their own national impotence, and (2) the elites can see that the the logical end of it all will find themselves subject to ZionNazi a hegemon that considers them untermenschen.
Then, people shouldn’t complain when Israel ups the ante with even more deadlier attacks.
?? Don’t you mean the Leadership Elite?
If by Elite you mean the western countries then no. Besides, this fight is now very personal one for the region.
How so? The Soviet states were always better off than Mexico, Peru, … Haiti, the US empires subject states.
Iran is putting its best foot forward. The US should be thusly inclined, to do the same.
The US doesn't have a "best" foot.
"Iranian President Says Direct Talks With US Are Possible If US Shows It’s Not Hostile: President Pezeshkian reiterated that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapons." The President of Iran must be competing for the title of most USEFUL IDIOT in the world!
Sometimes I feel like I may not be the most stupid person in the world. It's usually when a politician says something that is so absurd, that I enter a trance like in The Twilight Zone. That's where I can't tell Diplomacy, Lies, and Stupidity from each other.
We swim in a sea of lies.
"We are not hostile towards the US" LOL.
For history buffs, "The government of Japan, prompted by a genuine desire to come to an amicable understanding with the Government of the United States in order that the two countries by their joint efforts may secure the peace of the Pacific Area and thereby contribute toward the realization of world peace." December 1941
And that proves Iran is hostile towards the US? Ridiculous. But never mind that Iran was in total compliance of the JCPOA while the US NEVER was.
What it proves is to be careful. You know the old quote "beware of Greeks bearing gifts".
In 1953, President Dwight David Eisenhower commissioned the brank spanking new Central Intelligence (?) Agency to foment a coup in Iran. It was successful, of course. It changed the dynamics of so many things, not the least of which the birth of radical Islam. The simple reason was because of OIL.
The first radical Islamist movement, the Moslem Brotherhood, was founded in 1928 by Egyptian teacher Hassan el-Bana. But let us not let historical facts get in the way of a good story.
And let's not let historical facts get in the way of the 1953 coup being the impetus of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy.
"if Washington showed that it was not hostile toward Tehran."
The guy needs to drop the hashish pipe…