Iran has firmly rejected recent claims circulating in Western media that fresh nuclear negotiations with the United States are about to resume, asserting that no concrete arrangement has been made to reinitiate talks that were effectively sabotaged by the US-backed Israeli military aggression earlier this June. Iran’s deputy foreign minister, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, categorically dismissed these reports as baseless, making it clear that President Donald Trump’s repeated threats against Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, only further expose the hollowness and bad faith behind Washington’s so-called offers for dialogue. Speaking to reporters after consulting with the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Ravanchi reminded the world that real negotiation requires trust and mutual respect, both of which the US has systematically undermined through years of economic warfare, military provocations, and open threats.
Echoing this position, Iranian ambassador to the UN Amir-Saeid Iravani stated bluntly in an interview with CBS News that negotiation is not a one-way street. He emphasized that genuine dialogue is built on the principle of give and take — not dictation and unconditional surrender. By continuing to threaten Iran with maximum pressure while simultaneously dangling hollow promises of economic relief, Washington reveals its real goal is not peaceful compromise but the imposition of its will on a sovereign nation. Iravani rightly pointed out that Trump’s belligerent social media posts during and after the US-Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear sites do not represent the language of any sincere negotiation. Instead, they are reminders that the US political establishment, no matter who is in power, still clings to imperial arrogance when dealing with independent countries.
Despite the relentless US and Israeli propaganda branding Iran’s peaceful nuclear energy program as a cover for building weapons of mass destruction, both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran have repeatedly confirmed that there is no nuclear weapons agenda. This inconvenient truth, however, has not stopped the US and Israel from launching reckless acts of aggression. The joint bombings of three Iranian nuclear sites on June 22, during a time when negotiations were supposedly ongoing, were aimed at destroying a program that Iran insists is purely civilian and fully within its rights as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Far from cowering, Iran has declared its nuclear facilities remain largely intact and that uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes will continue — an act of defiance that highlights its determination to safeguard its technological progress and sovereignty.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking on the anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s chemical attack on the Iranian city of Sardasht, reminded the world that Iran has been the greatest victim of chemical weapons in contemporary history. This tragic experience has made the country one of the staunchest advocates of a world free from all weapons of mass destruction. Iran has consistently pushed for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons — an initiative that has been blocked time and again by Western powers shielding Israel’s undeclared nuclear arsenal while demonizing Iran’s peaceful program. This double standard exposes the moral bankruptcy of Washington’s claims to be a champion of non-proliferation and peace.
Meanwhile, the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned President Trump’s insulting rhetoric and repeated threats against Ayatollah Khamenei and the Iranian people, calling them insolent and provocative. Trump’s crude remarks, including public musings about assassinating Iran’s supreme leader and reducing the country to rubble, reveal the true face of US foreign policy: a dangerous mix of violence, intimidation, and total disregard for international norms and human decency. Such bullying tactics do nothing but deepen global revulsion at Washington’s imperial ambitions and further discredit its claims of wanting genuine dialogue.
For those who stand with the right of nations to determine their own future, Iran’s clear refusal to bow down to threats and coercion is a powerful reminder that sovereignty cannot be bombed into submission nor bought with empty promises of conditional concessions. In an era when powerful states twist the very concept of negotiation into a tool for domination, Iran’s unwavering insistence on its rights and dignity exposes the real obstacle to peace in the region and beyond: an imperial hubris that still imagines it can dictate the fate of entire peoples. Iran’s stand, rooted in history and the struggle against weapons of mass destruction, is not just about one country’s right to enrich uranium — it is about the right of all oppressed nations to resist, to speak on equal terms, and to refuse to surrender their dignity at the negotiating table.