Iran will only agree on talks to end the Middle East crisis if Israel stops bombing

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Iran has told other countries in the Middle East that it would only agree to negotiate the end of the war with Israel and resume talks on its nuclear program if the Israeli forces stop their campaign to bomb against the Islamic Republic, according to diplomats.

One of the diplomats in the region said that Tehran’s message in discussions with the neighboring Gulf states was “very clear” – that it would not negotiate during the attack.

The diplomat said: “If the Israelis stop, they will stop, then these are the messages we get. But they will not negotiate under the fire.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragichi said on Monday that if US President Donald Trump is serious in diplomacy, he must pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end war.

“If President Trump is real about diplomacy and is interested in stopping this war, then the next steps are back.” “It takes a single phone call from Washington to honor a person like Netanyahu. This path may be paved to return to diplomacy.”

Speaking at the Group of Seven meeting on Monday, Trump He said that the war was “painful for both parties, but I say that Iran does not win this war, and it must speak.”

“They should talk immediately, before it is too late,” he added.

Iran was to hold a sixth round of indirect talks with the United States at the end of last week as part of Trump’s efforts to pressure Tehran to accept a deal to reduce its wide nuclear program.

The US president said he preferred to secure an agreement to resolve the nuclear confrontation, but he also threatened military action if diplomacy fails.

But the indirect US talks with Tehran were raised after the Netanyahu government on Friday She launched her war Against the republic with waves of weather strikes targeting nuclear plants, senior military leaders and missile factories.

In the days that followed, it expanded its attack to include energy facilities, the government television complex and other infrastructure, where the Republic faces its most threats since its war with Iraq in the 1980s.

The Iranian Ministry of Health said that the bombing campaign had killed more than 200 people.

Tehran responded by firing waves of missile fires throughout Israel, which killed more than 20 people, according to Israeli rescue services.

The neighbors of the Republic in the Gulf-Amman, who was facilitating nuclear negotiations, Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-were speaking to Iranian leaders and the United States in an attempt to eliminate the escalation of the conflict and resume diplomatic efforts to resolve the long, exciting crisis.

Iranian leaders have publicly pledged revenge as long as Israel attacks the republic, and believe that Netanyahu is seeking to destroy the regime. Israeli officials said the attack could last for weeks.

A second diplomat said that Iran was open to diplomacy and reached a nuclear agreement with the United States if it was considered fair and credible, but added that Tehran would not do this unless Israel stopped its attack. A Western official said he was hearing the same message.