As verbal wars on nuclear weapons escalate, FM Araghchi said he wanted to talk about the “equal foundation”.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has intensified tensions between the two countries, with the prospect of direct negotiations with the U.S. nuclear program “meaningless.”

Trump said in a letter to Iran’s supreme leader last month that Araguech’s remarks were published in a statement Sunday. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei He hopes that negotiations will take place between their countries to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Trump raised his ante last week, saying: “If they don’t reach a deal, it will explode.”

Araghchi questioned Washington’s sincerity in calling for negotiations and said on Sunday: “If you want to negotiate, what’s the point of the threat?”

Tehran insists that it has not sought nuclear weapons, rejected Washington’s proposal so far but says it is open Indirect diplomacy – Araghchi’s position repeated in Sunday’s statement.

Araghchi said Iran wanted to negotiate with the United States “a “equal basis” and described it as “a party that is constantly threatening to resort to violations of the UN Charter and expressing the ambivalent positions of various officials.”

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Western countries led by the United States have accused Tehran of seeking nuclear weapons for decades.

In 2018, Trump weakened the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan during his first term as president, and an agreement between Iran and permanent members of the UN Security Council allowed Iran to impose sanctions on relief in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program.

Since then, Iran has backed down on the promises of the agreement and has accumulated enough Fissile Materials According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, multiple bombs were inspected on Iran’s nuclear ruins.

Responding to Trump’s war threat, Hossein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, said on Saturday that the country was “prepared” for the war.

“We are not worried about war at all. We will not be the initiators of war, but we are ready for any war,” the official IRNA news agency quoted Salami as saying.

However, Tehran’s position in the ongoing war in Gaza and beyond seemed to be weakened due to Israel’s expulsion of Hezbollah’s leadership in Lebanon, and overthrew another major partner, Bashar al-Assad, last year.

Iran said its nuclear activities are for civilian purposes only. Israel is the highest U.S. ally in the region and is widely regarded as an undeclared nuclear arsenal.