JAKARTA - Talks between Iran and the United States, held with the support of regional countries, mark "a step forward," President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday.
"Dialogue has always been our strategy to reach a peaceful solution," President Pezeshkian wrote on the social media X, as reported by Anadolu (9/1).
President Pezeshkian stressed that Iran's approach to the nuclear issue is based on "guaranteed rights under the Non-Proliferation Treaty."
The Iranian president added that his country would "respond to respect with respect but not accept the language of violence."
Iran and the United States resumed indirect nuclear deal diplomacy in Oman on Friday, after weeks of rising tensions, triggered by US President Donald Trump's threat of military action against the country.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the talks as "a good start," and said talks could continue if the atmosphere of mistrust could be overcome.
He said that it was agreed that the process would continue and the two parties could meet again in Muscat, Oman, at a later date.
According to Foreign Minister Araghchi, Iran's missile program is not a subject of negotiation, either now or in the future, and describes it as a "defense issue."
Long before the current situation, Iran along with the US, China, France, Germany, Russia, the UK and the EU agreed to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), under which sanctions against Iran were lifted in compensation for Tehran limiting its uranium enrichment.
However, President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement during his first term in 2018. After that, Iran openly violated the agreed restrictions.
New nuclear talks that began last year were due to enter a sixth round, but were suspended after Israel launched a 12-day war on Iran, in which the US took part by bombing three nuclear sites before President Trump announced a ceasefire.
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