JAKARTA - Iranian Foreign Minister (Menlu) Abbas Araghchi insists there is no room for negotiations with the United States. Most recently, President Donald Trump weighed within two weeks to decide the US involvement in the attack on Iran.
"There is no room for negotiations with the US until the Israeli aggression stops," AragCHI was quoted as saying on Iranian state TV on Friday, June 20.
European foreign ministers met with Iran's Foreign Minister on Friday to find a way back to diplomacy over its disputed nuclear program despite the US considering joining Israeli attacks on Iran.
The ministers from Britain, France, and Germany, known as E3, plus the EU's foreign policy chief, spoke to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to approve the meeting earlier this week and have coordinated with the United States.
"Iran can't sit with America, while we can," a European diplomat said.
"We will ask them to return to the negotiating table to discuss nuclear issues before the worst-case scenario occurs, while expressing our concern over its ballistic missile, its support for Russia, and the detention of our citizens," he continued.
The negotiations are scheduled for Friday afternoon in Geneva, where an initial agreement between Iran and major countries of the world was held to curb its nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions was reached in 2013 before a comprehensive deal in 2015.
Separate negotiations between Iran and the US failed when Israel launched what it called Operation Rising Lion against Iran's nuclear facilities and ballistic capabilities on June 12.
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As previously reported, President Donald Trump will decide in the next two weeks whether the United States (US) will engage in the Israeli-Iran air war.
"Based on the fact that there are most likely negotiations that may or may not occur with Iran in the near future, I will make a decision whether to leave in the next two weeks or not," White House Press Secretary Krypto Leavitt said.
Leavitt said in a routine briefing at the White House that Trump was interested in working on a diplomatic solution with Iran, but his top priority was to ensure Iran could not acquire nuclear weapons.
He said any deal should ban Tehran's enrichment of uranium and eliminate Iran's ability to acquire nuclear weapons.
"The president is always interested in diplomatic solutions, if there is an opportunity for diplomacy, the president will always take advantage of it," Leavitt said.
"But he is also not afraid to use force," he added.
Trump's position made the world wonder about his plans, turning from proposing a fast diplomatic solution to suggesting the US might join the fighting on the part of Israel.
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