Iran will hold no negotiations with US: Top security official

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani says the Islamic Republic will hold no negotiations with the United States after Washington and Tel Aviv waged war against the country.

Larijani made the remark in a post on his X account on Monday in response to a report by The Wall Street Journal claiming that he had started new efforts to resume talks with the US.

The US and Israel started a fresh round of aerial aggression on Iran on Saturday, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.

The Saturday attacks led to the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

The Iranian administration on Sunday declared 40 days of public mourning and seven days of holidays following the Leader’s martyrdom.

The aggression was launched as Tehran and Washington had held three rounds of indirect negotiations in the Omani capital of Muscat and the Swiss city of Geneva and planned to open technical talks in Vienna, Austria, last Monday.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases in regional countries.

On the second day of the joint aggression, US President Donald Trump claimed that Iranian authorities wanted to hold talks with Washington.

In another post on X, Larijani said the US president had caused turmoil in the region as a result of his “pipe dreams” and is now concerned about more losses on the American servicemen.

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The top Iranian security official added that Trump changed the self-made slogan of “America First” to “Israel First” through his illusion-driven performance and sacrificed the American soldiers for the sake of Israel’s ambitions.

Larijani emphasized that the American soldiers and their families are bearing the brunt of Trump’s lie mongering and his ill nature.

“Today, the Iranian nation is defending itself. Iran’s Armed Forces have not launched any aggression,” the SNSC secretary pointed out, emphasizing it was not Iran that initiated the war.

Iran has reaffirmed its policy to promote peace in the region but pledged that it will not hesitate to defend its territorial integrity against any act of aggression.

Iranian officials have also already called on the country’s neighbors not to allow their soil to be used by the US and Israel for any attack against the Islamic Republic, warning to retaliate.

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