The Iran’s Foreign Minister swears that “the doors of diplomacy will never close” after the air strikes of the Trump government -a statement that an Iran expert says to buy time.
Abbas Araghchi was quoted as making the comment to CBS News after President Donald Trump told last Wednesday that the US would meet Iranian officials this week.
“I don’t think the negotiations will restart so quickly,” Araghchi added. “To be able to communicate again, we must first ensure that America will not return to focusing on us in a military attack during the negotiations. And I think we still need more time with all these considerations.”
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This satellite image of Maxar Technologies shows on Monday, June 22, 2025, after American strikes ordered by President Donald Trump. (Joe McNally/Getty images; Maxar Technologies via AP)
“Negotiating to buy time and save the regime is an art form for Iranian political elites. Even when they are done from a position of weakness, is a reason why Tehran will not close the door during conversations, because it tries to prevent military action.
“Undoubtedly, the Islamic Republic will cause a ruckus about performing post-strike negotiations, but ultimately agree to talk when it has been overrun about the battlefield conventionally means that his mission has been reached,” Taleblu added.
After the conclusion of a NATO top in the Netherlands, Trump said last week that “I could get an explanation” that Iran “is not going nuclear”.
“We are probably going to ask for that … but they are not going to do it anyway. They have had it,” Trump added.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is waiting to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for the conversations in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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“We are going to talk to them next week, with Iran. We can sign an agreement, I don’t know. I don’t think I think it is necessary. I mean, they have had a war. They fought. Now they go back to their world. I don’t care if I have an agreement or not. [program]. But we destroyed the nuclear, “Trump said too.
“If we got a document, it would not be bad. We are going to meet them. We are actually going to meet them,” the president continued.
However, Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday that he does not talk to Iran.
New photos with a high resolution show significant damage to the nuclear site of Iran after recent Israeli and American air strikes, with visible destruction to tunnels and access roads. (Maxar Technologies)
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“The administration and namely our special envoy, Steve Witkoff, has been directly and indirectly in communication with the Iranians. That communication continues. The president has not spoken with Iran himself, which he has noticed in his declaration of truth,” the Minister of White House Karoline Leavitt added later on Monday.
