Foreign Policy

Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, on Wednesday lambasted the US and Israel for orchestrating the recent 12-day conflict with Iran, calling it a long-planned provocation aimed at weakening the country. 

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araqchi, warned that Israel’s growing footprint in the Caribbean and Latin America represents a serious challenge to regional calm and security.

A public dispute has emerged in Tehran after the editor-in-chief of the principlist daily Kayhan, Hossein Shariatmadari, sharply criticized President Massoud Pezeshkian over a recent letter sent to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi will travel to France this week for high-level discussions, following his participation in the annual conference of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has sharply criticized the Israeli regime’s airstrike on a residential neighborhood in southern Beirut on Sunday evening, as well as the assassination of senior Lebanese resistance commander, martyr Haitham Ali Tabatabaei.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baqaei has stressed that no negotiations will take place between Tehran and Washington as long as the United States insists on its current approach.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi says the US and three European countries have deliberately undermined the Cairo agreement, arguing that Iran has demonstrated goodwill while Western powers pursue escalation.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Israel would be unable to withstand a unilateral confrontation with Iran for more than a week, noting that the outcome of the 12-day conflict in June revealed the regime’s vulnerabilities without Western backing. Speaking at a gathering of Basij officials, Qalibaf said the conflict offered “an important lesson” for Israel.

The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced that it considers the resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors—passed under pressure from the United States, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom—illegal and unjustified.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi announced that Tehran has officially ended the Cairo Memorandum of Understanding, the document that had governed its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The head of Iran’s Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Thursday that no negotiations are currently taking place between Tehran and Washington, though both sides have previously shown interest in dialogue.

Iran called on Brazil, as a member of the IAEA Board of Governors, to vote against an anti-Tehran resolution put forward by the European troika.

The head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and senior advisor to the Iranian Leader said any future negotiations with the US must be based on “equality and mutual respect,” emphasizing that both the agenda and framework of talks must be agreed upon in advance.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Tuesday that Tehran’s relations with all five Caspian Sea littoral states are “excellent” and in some cases “strategic,” reaffirming that neighboring countries remain Iran’s top foreign-policy priority.

Iran’s deputy Foreign Minister and head of the Foreign Ministry’s Center for Political and International Studies, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said any path toward renewed diplomatic understanding with the US requires Washington to accept “the logic of negotiation and real give-and-take.”

During a phone call with his Russian counterpart, Iran’s foreign minister emphasized that the International Atomic Energy Agency should remain committed to its professional responsibilities and avoid any politicized actions or influence from the United States and several European countries.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that fresh requests for negotiations with Tehran have emerged in the aftermath of the military strikes by Israel and the US on Iran earlier this year, which he slammed as “an assault on diplomacy itself.”

The Iranian Foreign Minister emphasized that during the recent 12-day war, the Islamic Republic, acting in legitimate defense of its land and people against an unlawful act of aggression, not only halted the aggressors but also dealt them heavy blows—demonstrating that while the Iranian nation is peace-seeking, it will stand firm to the end in times of war and force the aggressor to regret its actions.

Former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that Israel was the principal opponent of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) because “the only existential threat to the Zionist regime is peace and stability”.

Iran’s permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Reza Najafi, criticized a draft resolution proposed by the US and three European countries at the IAEA Board of Governors, calling it an attempt to impose “unjustified and illegal” reporting obligations on the agency’s Director General.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei strongly rejected the claims made against Iran in the final statement issued by the G7 foreign ministers in Canada, calling the accusations groundless, irresponsible, and unacceptable.

The Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, in a letter simultaneously sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and the President of the United Nations Security Council, Michael Imran Kanu, pointed out that the admission of the US president to leading the aggressive action of the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran is clear evidence proving Washington’s direct role in committing the crime of aggression by Israel against Iran, and emphasized the international responsibility of the US government.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi held a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday, during which the two sides exchanged views on the latest regional and international developments.

Iran has not sent any new messages to the United States, according to Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson emphasized that US President Donald Trump’s admission of involvement in the Israeli regime’s military aggression against Iran is a crime that has been officially documented and recorded at the United Nations.