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Iranian President Warns Donald Trump Against “War”
A few days before the inauguration of Donald Trump, the Iranian president reaffirmed that Iran was not “seeking” to acquire nuclear weapons.
Published today at 3:55 a.m.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, during a televised debate on Iranian state television in Tehran, July 2024.
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Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian warned Donald Trump of the risk of a “war” against the Islamic Republic, reaffirming that Iran was not “seeking” to acquire nuclear weapons, in an interview Tuesday at a American television.
“I hope that (President-elect Donald) Trump will lead to regional and global peace and will not, on the contrary, contribute to bloodshed or war,” Iran’s new reformist president said in a statement. interview carried out in his country by the NBC News channel, less than a week before the inauguration of the 47th American president.
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Washington and Tehran have not had diplomatic relations for 45 years and Donald Trump repeatedly suggested during his campaign that Israel could strike Iranian nuclear facilities.
“We do not fear war”
“We will respond to any action. We do not fear war, but we do not seek it,” President Pezeshkian responded, through a translator, when asked about the prospect of Israeli military strikes, with the agreement of the United States, against sites nuclear weapons of his country.
At the same time, its head of diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, reported on Tuesday a “serious” desire from Germany, France and the United Kingdom to resume negotiations on this nuclear program, resulting from talks in Geneva.
Tensions around Iranian civilian nuclear power — the great powers have suspected Tehran of having military objectives for two decades — have only been reignited since President Trump in 2018 withdrew from a 2015 international agreement .
“Peaceful”
This text, signed by the United States under the presidency of Barack Obama, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and Germany, offered Iran sanctions relief in exchange for a limitation of its nuclear ambitions.
And since Washington’s withdrawal, Iran has reneged on its commitments to enrichment and control of its nuclear program. “Everything we have done so far has been peaceful. We are not seeking to create a nuclear weapon. But they accuse us of trying to make an atomic bomb, the Iranian president defended.
Asked by NBC News about the possibility of “direct and open negotiations with President Trump,” the Iranian leader was skeptical. “The problem is not the dialogue. The problem lies in the commitments that arise from discussions and this dialogue,” he responded, deploring that “the other party has not kept its promises or respected its obligations.”
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