Middle East Monitoring Desk Islamabad | 20 April | 9:45 PM
Iran’s decision not to participate in another round of Pakistani-mediated negotiations with the United States has not changed so far, Tasnim has learned.
While US President Donald Trump has said that Vice President J.D. Vance and other members of the American negotiating team are on their way to Pakistan, so far, there has been no change in Iran’s stance on not taking part in the talks.
Iran’s participation is subject to the fulfillment of certain preconditions.
In similar remarks yesterday, Trump had said in statements that the American negotiating team is on its way to Islamabad.
Information received indicates that the issue of the naval blockade is a very fundamental obstacle in the way of the talks and this issue has been conveyed to the Pakistani mediator, with the Pakistani mediator saying today that he had discussed the issue with Trump.
In addition to the issue of the naval blockade, there have been excessive demands from the Americans mentioned in the exchanged messages that do not show a clear horizon for any upcoming negotiations.
Therefore, the Iranian delegation believes that as long as the US looks at the issue unrealistically and approaches the negotiating table with the same miscalculations that led to its heavy defeat in the military arena, negotiations would be simply a waste of time and Iran would not accompany the US in this waste of time process.
Accordingly, until some fundamental obstacles are removed and a clear horizon for reaching an agreement acceptable to Tehran is formed, Iran will see no basis for participating in the American theater.
Iran is also mindful of the possible scenario mentioned by some media about negotiations being a deception and is ready for a military confrontation and punishing the US again.
