Pezeshkian says Iran ‘no longer trusts talks with Washington’

President Masoud Pezeshkian has told Al Jazeera that Iran nary longer trusts negotiations with the United States aft erstwhile rounds of talks were followed by attacks and sanctions, arsenic Tehran awaits a response to its latest connection to extremity the war.

“We person nary spot successful the American broadside and bash not cognize connected what ground an knowing tin beryllium reached with it,” Pezeshkian told the Qatar-based broadcaster successful an interrogation aired connected Saturday.

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Pezeshkian and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi visited the US this week for the United Nations gathering of satellite leaders and projected a woody that would extremity warring successful the US-Israel warfare connected Iran and unblock the Strait of Hormuz wrong 7 days.

Araghchi told reporters connected Friday that initial steps would instrumentality 4 to 5 days, the Strait of Hormuz would reopen connected the sixth time and “on time seven, the talks with the US volition beryllium started for the last woody connected mutually agreed subjects,” referring to Iran’s atomic programme.

Under the plan, Washington would assistance its naval blockade of Iranian ports, waive sanctions connected Iranian lipid sales, merchandise an estimated $12bn successful frozen Iranian assets and observe a ceasefire covering the region, including Lebanon and Yemen.

In return, Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, done which a 5th of the world’s traded lipid and state passed earlier the war, and which has go Tehran’s main constituent of leverage.

Pezeshkian told Al Jazeera that mediators Qatar and Pakistan are conveying Iran’s messages to Washington. He said the negotiations are based connected the erstwhile memorandum of knowing (MoU) reached by the 2 sides successful June, and the US indispensable clarify its presumption connected that agreement, which lapsed past month.

The warfare began successful precocious February, erstwhile the US and Israel launched attacks connected Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Blocking Hormuz ‘a earthy response’

Pezeshkian besides denied that Iran was liable for blocking the Strait of Hormuz, saying the US “closed the routes earlier us”. He described the closure arsenic “a earthy effect erstwhile routes are chopped disconnected to Iran”.

He said the situation could beryllium resolved done negotiations alternatively than force, and that the waterway would reopen to commercialized shipping if talks ended the war.

Pezeshkian called the US the aggressor successful the conflict, saying Iran “has not attacked immoderate state successful 200 years”. He said the US and Israel had dragged determination countries into the warfare successful the content that the Iranian strategy “would illness wrong days”.

“We withstood the American and Israeli attacks, and we volition proceed to basal firm,” helium said, adding that neither the sidesplitting of an Iranian commandant nor economical unit had caused Iranians to retreat.

He said Israel and the US had attacked Iran from the airspace of Islamic countries, and that Iran targets bases utilized by US forces successful the portion due to the fact that operations against it are launched from them. Tehran seeks thing extracurricular planetary law, helium said, and responds lone erstwhile others interruption the rules.

Pezeshkian besides linked the imposition of sanctions connected Iran to the tactics utilized by Israel successful its genocidal warfare against Palestinians successful Gaza.

“Those who contradict Iranians medicine and earthy materials are the aforesaid radical who chopped disconnected nutrient and h2o from Gaza,” helium said, adding that anyone who believed Iranians could beryllium targeted done sanctions had “miscalculated”.

‘We don’t request a determination policeman’

Pezeshkian besides said determination information could beryllium achieved done practice among the region’s ain countries. “We bash not request a determination policeman,” helium said.

He accused the US and Israel of seeking to pit Islamic countries against 1 different to power the region’s resources. He besides said Saudi Arabia is susceptible of playing a relation successful uniting the Islamic world.

Regarding Yemen, wherever warring has escalated betwixt the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels and Yemen’s Saudi-backed authorities forces, helium said the actions of the Houthis were not connected to Iran, and that Tehran stands successful solidarity with “everyone subjected to injustice”.

He urged the Houthis and Saudi Arabia to resoluteness their differences done dialogue, saying “a member should not combat his brother,” and offered Iran’s assistance successful ending the dispute. “We volition not beryllium warmongers,” helium said.

‘Unity and cohesion’

On home politics, Pezeshkian accused Iran’s “enemies” of trying to disturbance disagreements among Iranian officials, insisting the state is witnessing “unprecedented unity and cohesion”.

He said helium had met doubly with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who has not appeared successful nationalist since the warfare began, including 1 gathering that lasted 7 hours and covered pivotal issues. He pledged to flooded what helium called “accumulated imbalances successful Iran’s interior conditions”.

The US and Israel privation to halt Iran from becoming self-reliant, helium said, “but we volition put successful our people”.