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Iran is conducting intensive diplomatic contacts through Qatari and Pakistani mediators, including dozens of phone calls, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday, according to Anadolu Agency.
Speaking to Iran’s state news agency IRNA at the end of a visit to Turkmenistan, Araghchi said Tehran had presented a clear plan and conditions for resolving the dispute diplomatically.
“We have announced our specific conditions and presented our formulated plan; now everything depends on how much political rationality prevails on the American side and whether there is a will to take the wise path of diplomacy or, as in previous instances, to drag the situation toward aggression and military operations,” he said.
Araghchi said Iran was more prepared than ever for either a diplomatic or military scenario. He warned that any renewed military action or deception would prompt a response “far harsher and more regretful than before,” and stressed that Tehran would not yield to coercion.
He added that reopening the Strait of Hormuz and fully resuming negotiations depended on the unconditional acceptance of Iran’s “rightful conditions.”
Araghchi described strengthening ties with neighboring countries as an “unchanging priority” of Iranian foreign policy. He said his Turkmenistan visit focused on advancing major bilateral projects in energy, transit and economic cooperation, following agreements reached by the two countries’ presidents on the sidelines of the Commonwealth of Independent States summit in Awaza.
Asked about a visit to Beijing by Ali Bagheri Kani, deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Araghchi said the consultations were part of Tehran’s continued strategic and security engagement with key partners on regional peace and stability.
The latest diplomatic contacts come amid ongoing tensions between Tehran and Washington over the US naval blockade and security in the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for global energy shipments.
