Gharibabadi: US Action Dismantled Islamabad Understanding

Ghariabadi: The United States, through its latest action, has wrecked the Islamabad understanding; Iran acted on the Strait of Hormuz in accordance with the memorandum of understanding and its sovereign rights The Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, in response to the question that “considering the recent U.S. action and the discussions raised about...,” Ghariabadi: The Islamic Republic of Iran will not be the first to call for negotiations with the United States; we will not retreat from our principled position on the Strait of Hormuz under pressure According to the Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs: Today, in a phone call with an official from the foreign ministry of a European country, I was asked that the Islamic Republic of Iran return to the negotiating table and fulfill its commitments. In response, I told him that it appears you are not fully aware of the realities on the ground. Iran has not left the negotiating table; it was the United States that, through its actions, wrecked the Islamabad memorandum of understanding. Therefore, it was not the Islamic Republic of Iran that disrupted the negotiation process. Accordingly, to say that Iran must return to the negotiating table is fundamentally not an accurate request, because Iran did not leave the negotiations. Also, the Islamic Republic of Iran will not be the first country to, after these criminal actions by the United States, raise the issue of negotiations with Washington. We will never ask to negotiate with the United States. If the United States thinks that by t