Iran’s president says open to dialogue with US after Israel war

Israel attacked Iran conscionable days earlier Tehran and Washington were to conscionable for a caller circular of atomic talks.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said helium believes Tehran tin resolve its differences with the United States done dialogue, but spot would beryllium an contented aft US and Israeli attacks connected his country.

“I americium of the content that we could precise overmuch easy resoluteness our differences and conflicts with the United States done dialog and talks,” Pezeshkian told US right-wing podcaster Tucker Carlson successful an interrogation conducted connected Saturday and released connected Monday.

His remarks came little than a period aft Israel launched its unprecedented June 13 bombing run against Iran, sidesplitting apical subject commanders and atomic scientists.

The Israeli attacks took spot 2 days earlier Tehran and Washington were acceptable to conscionable for a caller circular of atomic talks, stalling negotiations that were aimed astatine reaching a woody implicit Iran’s atomic programme.

A week later, successful abstracted attacks connected June 21, the US besides bombed 3 Iranian atomic facilities astatine Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan.

Iranian authorities media said connected Monday that the decease toll from the 12-day warfare had risen to astatine slightest 1,060.

Pezeshkian blamed Israel, Iran’s archenemy, for the illness of talks with the US.

“How are we going to spot the United States again?” helium asked.

“How tin we cognize for definite that successful the mediate of the talks, the Israeli authorities volition not beryllium fixed the support again to onslaught us?”

Iran’s president besides accused Israel of attempting to assassinate him during the June attacks.

“They did try, yes. They acted accordingly, but they failed,” Pezeshkian told Carlson successful effect to a question connected whether helium believed Israel had tried to termination him.

“It was not the United States that was down the effort connected my life. It was Israel. I was successful a gathering … they tried to bombard the country successful which we were holding that meeting,” helium said, according to a translation of his remarks from Persian into English.

On June 16, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu besides did not regularisation retired plans to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying it would “end the conflict” aft reports emerged astatine the clip that US President Donald Trump had vetoed the move.

While a ceasefire betwixt Iran and Israel has been successful spot since June 24, during the interrogation with Carlson, Pezeshkian accused Netanyahu of pursuing his “own agenda” of “forever wars” successful the Middle East and urged Trump not to beryllium drawn into warfare with Iran by the Israeli leader.

Netanyahu is visiting Washington connected Monday for talks astatine the White House.

“The United States’ president, Mr. Trump, helium is susceptible capable to usher the portion towards bid and a brighter aboriginal and enactment Israel successful its place. Or get into a pit, an endless pit, oregon a swamp,” Pezeshkian said.

“So it is up to the United States president to take which path.”

Trump said helium expected to discuss Iran and its atomic ambitions with Netanyahu, praising the US strikes connected Iranian atomic sites arsenic a tremendous success.

On Friday, helium told reporters that helium believed Tehran’s atomic programme had been acceptable backmost permanently, though Iran could restart efforts elsewhere.