Mohammad Javad Zarif said Western countries’ interference is the root cause of problems facing regional countries.
“It seems some of our neighbours want the West to be part of negotiations with Iran!” he noted.
“But we will not hold talks with Western countries on the region,” Zarif stressed.
“However, we are ready for talks with our neighbours, and plans such as the one on regional security presented in 1986, [the plan on the formation of] a regional forum for dialogue in 2016 and the Hormuz peace initiative in 2019 all bear testament to that,” he said.
