Iran urges U.S. President Donald Trump to pursue renewed diplomacy with Tehran, arguing that confrontation has failed and that a negotiated settlement could benefit both countries.
In an open letter published on Tuesday, Dec. 30, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s Foreign Minister, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “achieved his dream of dragging the U.S. into a military confrontation with Iran,” but an increasing number of Americans see Israel as “not an ally but a liability.”
He rejected claims that Iran had been weakened or deterred, saying recent fighting had exposed what he described as the myth of Israeli invulnerability.
“The U.S. administration now faces a dilemma,” he asserted: “it can continue writing blank checks for Israel with American taxpayer dollars and credibility, or be part of a tectonic change for the better.”
