Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi discussed negotiations with the U.S. during an interview Friday morning with Joe Scarborough on MS Now, saying that the U.S. has not demanded a complete halt to nuclear enrichment. “They have not offered any suspension, and the US side has not asked for zero enrichment,” he said. Araghchi warned that there is “no military solution” to the confrontation, and to “ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and would remain peaceful forever, the only solution is diplomatic negotiation and coming to a diplomatic solution.” “We are prepared for diplomacy, and we are prepared for negotiation as much as we are prepared for war,” he said. “We agreed to work with each other to achieve a deal as soon as possible. The only question is how to make it a fair deal, a win-win deal, an equitable deal, and that is the difficult part of that.” His message to President Trump: “The message is that previous U.S. administrations, even the current U.S. administration, have tried almost everything against us – war, you know, sanctions, snapback, everything – but none of them worked.” “If you talk with the Iranian people with the language of respect, we respond with the same language. But if they talk to us with the language of force, we will reciprocate in the same language,” he said. “It’s now up to them to come up with an answer that would be satisfactory,” he said. “There is enough room for both sides to be creative. As long as the intention is to reach a deal, the opportunity is there.”
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