Iran rejected negotiations with Washington as Trump claimed Tehran sought talks amid ongoing US–Israeli attacks.
Key Developments
- Ali Larijani categorically rejected negotiations with the United States.
- Trump told The Atlantic Iran’s new leadership “wants to talk.”
- Abbas Araghchi said Iran was attacked during two negotiation rounds.
- Iran called Khamenei’s killing a violation of international law.
- Trump suggested the military campaign could last four to five weeks.
Larijani: ‘We Will Not Negotiate’
Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, firmly rejected any negotiations with Washington on Monday, contradicting claims made by Donald Trump.
“We will not negotiate with the US,” Larijani wrote on X, directly disputing Trump’s remarks in an interview with The Atlantic in which the US president said Iran’s new leadership “wants to talk” and that he had agreed to dialogue.
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Larijani’s statement also pushed back against a report by The Wall Street Journal claiming he had been involved in efforts to resume talks via Omani intermediaries.
In a separate post, Larijani accused Trump of transforming his “America First” doctrine into “Israel First,” writing that the US president was sacrificing American soldiers to serve Israeli regional ambitions.
“With delusional actions and new lies, Trump is once again making US soldiers and their families pay the price for his personality cult,” he wrote, stressing that Iran “has not started the invasion” and is acting in self-defense.
Araghchi: Diplomacy Undermined
Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran had engaged in talks with the United States twice over the past year but was attacked during both rounds.
Speaking to ABC News, Araghchi described the experience as “very bitter,” noting that the most recent negotiations in Geneva had lasted seven hours and appeared productive before collapsing.
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“Those who oppose peace, diplomacy, and negotiations, when they saw that the diplomatic track was going well, decided to destroy it,” he said, accusing Washington and Tel Aviv of spreading disinformation to derail the process.
Araghchi stated that Iran reserves the right to defend itself “without limitation,” framing Tehran’s military posture as self-defense against what he described as US aggression.
He also wrote to the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary-General, urging them to hold the United States and Israel accountable.
He described the killing of Ali Khamenei as “a cowardly act of terrorism and a flagrant violation of international law,” calling on the international community to uphold sovereign equality among states.
‘They Want to Talk’
In his interview with The Atlantic, Trump said he would speak with Iranian officials, though he declined to specify when.
“They want to talk, and I have agreed to talk,” he said from his Mar-a-Lago resort, adding that some of the negotiators he had previously dealt with were now dead.
Trump also told the Daily Mail that the campaign against Iran could last “around four to five weeks,” describing it as part of a broader process. He argued that Iran’s size meant operations could take that long or potentially less.
IRGC Says 560 US Soldiers Killed or Wounded; US Rejects Claim
When asked whether the United States would prolong military action to support a potential uprising in Iran, Trump said he would assess the situation as it unfolded but expressed confidence that change was coming.
Soon after the interview, US military officials confirmed that three American service members were killed and five seriously wounded in the operation — the first reported US casualties since the campaign began.
According to Iranian sources, the figure is much higher: in a statement, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced Sunday that its strikes on American bases across the region resulted in approximately 560 US military personnel killed or injured.
(PC, The Atlantic, WSJ, ABC News, social media, Iranian media)
Dondolf Twitler has sold out his own country; its citizens, HIS duty to put
” America first ” …
he only did this for the Israeli Jewish Nazis.
He’s not my president. To hell with Trump, and all the Jewish Nazis who love to murder children. The Israeli Jewish Nazis are a thousand times worse than the German Nazis ever were.
I begin to suspect the only way Iran will ever talk with the US now will be to discuss terms of the US surrender to Iran. I mean, after a month’s full-on war with Iran, killing more and more Iranian children and inflaming Iranian rage to overflowing, with Iran making the Hormuz Strait impassable and the US bases uninhabitable, and (most probably) sinking a few US warships into the bargain, the world will eventually see that the US is incapable of keeping to its side of the unwritten bargain any nation with a blue-water navy makes with the rest of the world, to keep the sea lanes safe for international trade – and after a month of no flights in and out of West Asia, no confidence whWeslatever