Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi released an important statement following the US strikes on Iran yesterday
“Every time a diplomatic solution is on the table, the U.S. opts for a reckless military adventure. Is it a crude pressure tactic? Or the result of a spoiler once again duping POTUS into another quagmire?
Whatever the causes, the outcome is the same: Iranians never bow to pressure and diplomacy is always the victim.
Also, the CIA is wrong. Our missile inventory and launcher capacity are not at 75% compared to February 28th. The correct figure is 120%.
As for our readiness to defend our people: 1,000%.”
Tehran wants ceasefire but terms ‘not good enough yet’, US president claims, as both sides launch new waves of strikes
Jason Burke at The Guardian:
Donald Trump has warned he is not ready to seek a deal to end the US-Israeli offensive against Iran, saying that though he thought Tehran was keen to negotiate a ceasefire, the US would fight on for better terms.
Trump’s comments came as Iran launched fresh missile and drone attacks on countries in the Gulf and on Israel, and Israeli and US warplanes launched new waves of strikes on Iran.
The conflict has plunged the Middle East into chaos, upended global air travel and disrupted oil exports from the region, sending fuel prices rising around the world.
Neither Tehran nor Washington appeared ready to moderate their rhetoric despite the mounting death toll and soaring oil prices after the virtual closure of the strait of Hormuz sea lane.
Trump, speaking on Saturday to NBC News, said the US may bomb targets on Kharg Island, which is the site of Iran’s principal oil export facility, once more “just for fun”, after US warplanes targeted military installations there on Friday.
“Iran wants to make a deal, and I don’t want to make it because the terms aren’t good enough yet,” Trump said, adding that US forces would step up attacks on the Iranian coast north of the strait to clear a path for oil shipments.
But the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, on Sunday disputed that claim. “We have never asked for a ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiations,” Araqchi told CBS’s Face the Nation programme. “We are ready to defend ourselves for as long as it takes.”
Experts say it will be extremely difficult for the US to reopen the strait through military means alone as long as Iran retains the ability to hit or harass shipping with missiles, drones or small boats.
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Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has – in a written statement – vowed to keep the strait of Hormuz closed. But Trump dismissed this and suggested Khamenei may not even be in control, saying: “I don’t know if he’s even alive. So far, nobody has been able to show him.”
Iran has admitted that Khamenei, 56, was injured in the strike that opened the war on 28 February and killed his predecessor, his father, but has described the injuries as light.
The Israeli military announced a wave of strikes against targets in western Iran, after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards called Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, a criminal and vowed that they would pursue and kill him.
“We still have thousands of targets in Iran, and we are identifying new targets every day,” Israeli military spokesperson Brig Gen Effie Defrin told a televised briefing.
In Tehran, people were able to go about their work week in the most normal atmosphere since the start of the war, witnesses said. Traffic was busier than last week and some cafes and restaurants had reopened.
Trump says that the US isn’t ready to seek a deal to end the war in Iran just yet.
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