Iran’s Pezeshkian presses US for ‘peace’ but says there’s no trust
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says he wants stability and believes US President Donald Trump has a choice as he “can lead the region towards peace and tranquility or, on the other hand, towards forever wars”.
“We see no problem in re-entering the negotiations,” Pezeshkian told US conservative media personality Tucker Carlson in a video interview conducted via a translator.
But he said Israel committed “atrocities” by attacking Iran and killing hundreds just days before Iran and the US were to hold a sixth round of negotiations mediated by Oman.
“How can we trust the US again? How will we know that in the middle of the talks, the Israeli regime will not be given permission to attack us again?”
Pezeshkian said another war would only further destabilise the Middle East, which will not be in the interest of the US, either.
Death toll of Israeli attacks on Iran climbs above 1,000 people
A total of 1,060 Iranian victims of Israel’s attacks in June have already been buried, according to the head of the Iran’s Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs, Saeed Ohadi.
He told state television in an interview the figure could reach as much as 1,100 dead because some people are still missing while others are in critical condition.
The 12 days of Israeli air strikes that started on June 13 also killed dozens of top military commanders and scientists in Iran. At least 28 people were killed in Israel as a result of Iran’s retaliatory missile strikes.
