US-Iran talks may take place next week: Witkoff
“[This meeting will happen] very soon. Next week or so,” he claimed during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, TASS reported.
This is while Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei on Saturday rejected circulating reports suggesting imminent nuclear talks with the United States.
Baghaei emphasized that “public opinion is currently so outraged that no one even dares to talk about negotiations or diplomacy.”
While the Zionist regime waged a war of aggression against Iran on June 13 and struck Iran’s military, nuclear and residential areas for 12 days, the US stepped in and conducted military attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran’s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan on June 22.
The Iranian military forces conducted powerful counterattacks immediately after the aggression. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force carried out 22 waves of retaliatory missile strikes against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III that inflicted heavy losses on cities across the occupied territories.
Also, in response to the US attacks, Iranian armed forces launched a wave of missiles at al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
A ceasefire that came into force on June 24 has brought the fighting to a halt.
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Iran stashed thousands of missiles, drones in secure place
Press TV quoted Major General Yahya Rahim-Safavi as saying on Monday that the Armed Forces are fully prepared for any scenario, amid reports that Israel could launch another attack on Iran despite a ceasefire that ended 12 days of military aggression last month.
He noted that key military branches—such as the Navy and the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)—were not mobilized and the Army did not deploy its full capabilities as the Armed Forces fended off Israeli attacks.
“We have produced several thousand missiles and drones so far, and their place is secure,” he added.
“Peaceful nuclear energy and the manufacturing of missiles are the results of indigenous knowledge, intellect, and science,” and thus they cannot be destroyed, he said.
Rahim-Safavi also described Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “wicked and criminal” person who has killed 60,000 people in Gaza and virtually 1,000 in Iran in pursuit of his own objectives.
However, he noted that Netanyahu “failed to achieve all his goals because the Islamic Republic was neither overthrown nor divided, and the people did not disperse. Although we suffered damage, we also inflicted damage on them (the Israelis).”
On June 13, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked aggression against Iran, assassinating many high-ranking military commanders, nuclear scientists, and ordinary civilians.
More than a week later, the United States joined the war and bombed three Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
On June 24, Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations against both the Israeli regime and the US, managed to impose a halt to the illegal assault.
Rahim-Safavi pointed to the serious blows that Iran dealt to Israel during the 12-day war, saying the Zionist regime is applying heavy media censorship in this regard.
In the more than seventy years of its disgraceful existence, Israel has never witnessed anything like Iran’s response to the aggression, which involved the firing of hundreds of missiles towards the occupied lands, with each carrying over 80 warheads and covering an area of 40 kilometers, the advisor said.
He further hailed the wise decisions made by Ayatollah Khamenei, who appointed successors to the martyred military commanders in less than 24 hours after their assassinations by Israel.
Meanwhile, the advisor slammed Israel’s wrong strategy in dealing with the Palestinians and the Islamic Republic, saying despite 21 months of genocidal war on Gaza, the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas is still alive, but the Israeli military is exhausted.
No occupying power in history has ever managed to remain permanently in a land it has seized, the Iranian official said.
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Trump claims wants to lift sanctions on Iran
“We took the sanctions off Syria to give them a chance… and I’d love to lift sanctions on Iran too at the right time so they can rebuild peacefully,” he claimed.
Trump claimed he would “love to, at the right time, lift sanctions on Iran,” adding, “I hope the war with Iran is over.”
Trump also stated that he could hardly imagine a scenario in which the United States would need to resort to military force against Iran again.
According to Middle East Eye, he further claimed that US-Iran nuclear talks are back on the schedule, with a meeting set to take place in Oslo, Norway, in the coming days.
While the Zionist regime waged a war of aggression against Iran on June 13 and struck Iran’s military, nuclear and residential areas for 12 days, the US stepped in and conducted military attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran’s Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan on June 22.
The Iranian military forces conducted powerful counterattacks immediately after the aggression. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force carried out 22 waves of retaliatory missile strikes against the Zionist regime as part of Operation True Promise III that inflicted heavy losses on cities across the occupied territories.
Also, in response to the US attacks, Iranian armed forces launched a wave of missiles at al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
A ceasefire that came into force on June 24 has brought the fighting to a halt.
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