Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied today that negotiations with the United States are currently taking place, despite assurances from American President Donald Trump on Sunday that talks would resume.
“We are not negotiating with the United States at this time. We are negotiating with Oman to guarantee passage through the Strait of Hormuz,” said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei during the weekly press briefing.
Baghaei insisted that any progress regarding the U.S. would depend on how the situation develops, speaking just hours after Trump stated that Tehran and Washington would resume negotiations today, following his earlier claim that he had canceled a massive attack against Iran in order to reach an agreement to end the conflict.
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“Of course they don’t want to be attacked. They knew the scale of this attack, because they saw it taking shape (…) What we’re doing now is talking with them, as part of a negotiation. That starts tomorrow [Monday] afternoon,” Donald Trump said Sunday, aboard Air Force One, quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency.
On Saturday, on the social network Truth, Trump revealed that the United States’ allies in the Middle East had reached an understanding on the terms of an agreement to end the war with Iran.
That agreement would include the “immediate, complete and total opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the end of Iran’s nuclear threat.”
