Tehran, Iran – Iran is “in no rush” to resume talks with the United States over its nuclear program, Tehran’s foreign minister has told Al Jazeera.
Iran is ready to hold indirect negotiations with Washington if the US chooses to speak “from an equal position based on mutual interests,” Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic from his office in Tehran that aired on Sunday.
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The official also asserted that a serious “shared understanding” of Israel is developing across the region.
Tehran’s top diplomat said the conditions set by the US for resuming talks – which include an emphasis on direct negotiations, zero uranium enrichment and limits on Iran’s missile stockpile – were met. Support to regional allies – are “illogical and inappropriate”.
That made the discussion unbearable, he suggested.
“Looks like they’re in no rush,” he remarked. “We’re in no rush either.”
Aragh comes despite his insistence Pressure from reimposed sanctions by the United Nations and other challenges facing the Iranian establishment.
Instead, the foreign minister said he believed regional dynamics were turning against Israel, America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
“I sometimes tell my friends that Mr. Netanyahu is a war criminal who has committed every atrocity, but has done something positive to prove to the entire region that Israel is the main enemy, not Iran and not any other country,” Araghchi said in reference to the Israeli prime minister.
The comments came two days after Oman’s top diplomat publicly joined the chorus of disapproval aimed at Netanyahu and his hardline government for the first time.
“We have long known that Israel, not Iran, is the primary source of insecurity in the region,” Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al-Busaidi told attendees at the IISS Manama Dialogue 2025 regional forum.
He said that over the years, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) had “at best sat back and allowed Iran to be isolated”, a role he believed “needs to change”.
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Over the years, Oman has Mediator between Iran and US In nuclear, economic, prisoner exchange and other regional issues.
Tehran and Washington were scheduled to meet in mid-June for the sixth round of talks Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities. The 12-day war killed more than 1,000 people and caused billions of dollars in infrastructure damage in Iran.
Following media reports last week that US President Donald Trump’s administration had sent a new message to Tehran via Oman, Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohjerani confirmed the message had been received.
But she did not elaborate on the content or Iran’s possible response. The White House has not publicly confirmed that the missile was sent.
During his interview, Araghchi said that “almost all” of the roughly 400 kg (880lb) of enriched uranium in Iran’s possession, 60 percent, was “buried under the rubble”. America bombed nuclear facilities and Israel.
“We have no intention of extricating them until the situation is ready. We have no information about how much of the 400 kilograms is intact and how much is destroyed, and we won’t know until we extricate it,” he said.
Iran’s foreign minister pointed out that China and Russia had made a formal announcement They do not recognize UN sanctions European signatories to the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers recently retaliated against Iran.
France, the United Kingdom and Germany have signaled the resumption of talks with Tehran. However, there has been no substantial progress.
Meanwhile, they have imposed sanctions and sanctions in response to Iran’s accusations. Export of drones to Russia and its nuclear program.
The three European powers announced in September that they were suspending their bilateral air services agreement with Iran, affecting Iranian carriers such as Iran Air.
Although Iranian state television broadcast footage of an Austrian Airlines plane landing at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on Sunday night, some flights appear to be slowly returning.
Germany’s Lufthansa is also set to resume flights to Tehran, but the exact restart date has not been publicly announced.