Tehran - Saba:
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi stressed on Thursday the "need for the United States to provide compensation to Iran for the damages it has suffered."
In statements to the British newspaper, the Financial Times, Araqchi said that "American compensation must be provided before entering into nuclear negotiations," noting "the exchange of messages with US envoy Steve Witkoff during and after the war."
He added that "Tehran will not agree to return to normalcy as before after the 12-day fighting with Israel," continuing, "They must explain why they attacked us in the middle of the negotiations and ensure that this will not be repeated during the upcoming negotiations."
The Iranian Foreign Minister stressed that "Tehran still has the capacity to enrich uranium," asserting that "an agreement cannot be reached as long as (US President) Donald Trump demands our approval to halt enrichment."
Araghchi explained that he "needs to convince Iran's top leadership that the other side is coming to the negotiations with a genuine determination to reach a win-win agreement," emphasizing that "the war has strengthened the growing opposition to negotiations within the ruling circles in Iran."
On the night of June 13, the Israeli entity launched a blatant aggression against Iran, targeting civilian nuclear facilities, military commanders, prominent nuclear physicists, and air bases with airstrikes. Iran, in turn, responded with attacks specifically on military and vital facilities in the occupied territories.
The two sides exchanged strikes for 12 days, and were joined by the United States, which carried out a one-off attack on Iranian nuclear facilities on the night of June 22. Tehran then launched missile strikes on the US Al-Udeid base in Qatar on the evening of June 23. Then, 24 hours later, Trump announced a truce between Iran and the Israeli entity, officially ending the 12-day war.