Iran's Abbas Araghchi Says No Negotiations Since 'Shock' of US Midterms
- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said mediators stopped traveling between Iran and the United States after the U.S. midterm elections, which he described as a “shock.”
- Araghchi said mediators, including those from Qatar and Pakistan, would need time before negotiations could resume.
- Iran and the United States remain in a maritime standoff involving the Strait of Hormuz despite reduced large-scale fighting.
- Araghchi urged Washington to accept Iran’s demands or “choose war,” warning that Iranian forces were prepared to respond.
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Negotiations that have recently intensified with a view to the end of the Iran War have stopped because of the shock of the defeat of Donald Trump's camp in elections, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced on the weekend, reports AFP.
After the mid-term elections in the U.S., the Donald Trump administration assesses its next steps in the face of Iran in a more complex political scenario. The president has recognized that the war with Iran was one of the factors influencing the Republican electoral setback and stated that it considers "highly unlikely" a resumption of the armed conflict. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that international mediators have …
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Arab NewsIran FM Says No Negotiations Since ‘Shock’ of US Midterms
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that mediators striving for a peace deal between the US and Iran had not travelled at all since the "shock" of the US midterm elections. "We now have to see how long it will take for them to digest these results, in order to determine how we are going to move forward," the top Iranian diplomat told state TV following the elections in which the Republican Party of US President Donald Trump su…
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