“We are not looking for war”
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 will react 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 nuclear sites in his country.
At the same time, its head of diplomacy, Abbas Araghchi, reported on Tuesday a “serious” desire of 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 .
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.
