Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has indicated that Iran is not planning for any negotiations with the U.S. “We currently have no plans for negotiations and are focused on defense,” Baghaei said Wednesday in response to claims by the US that its ongoing attacks on Iran would force Tehran back to the negotiating table, reported Mehr News. “An MoU is a set of mutual commitments, and in the event of a breach by the other party, we too will refrain from fulfilling our obligations; this is a principle, and this same path will be followed henceforth,” he said, referring to the Islamabad memorandum of understanding, signed by the U.S. and Iran on June 17. “The other party has engaged in bad faith and breach of promise (beginning) from the very first article (of the MoU).”
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazeem Gharibabadi, speaking to IRIB on Tuesday, said Iran no longer has any commitments under the MOU. “America not only violated the memorandum of understanding, but also dismantled it,” Gharibabadi said, reported Middle East Eye. “The failure to implement one of the clauses was enough to collapse the entire memorandum of understanding, and now America has violated all of its obligations.”
