Rania Abu Shamala
12 July 2025•Update: 12 July 2025
ISTANBUL
Iran’s supreme leader advisor Ali Larijani said Friday that Tehran is reviewing messages from Washington on the possible resumption of nuclear negotiations, according to Iranian media.
Larijani emphasized, however, a complete lack of trust in the US, asserting that “we no longer have any trust in America,” said the ISNA news agency.
He criticized the American approach as based on the principle that countries must either surrender or go to war. “The new Middle East,” Larijani added, “will be a resilient Middle East.”
Iran denied on Tuesday US President Donald Trump’s assertion about an Iranian request for a meeting on Tehran’s nuclear program.
“We have not submitted any request to the US side regarding a meeting,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said in statements by state-run Tasnim news agency.
Trump said Monday that Washington will hold nuclear talks with Iran.
"We have scheduled Iran talks, and they want to talk," Trump told reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.
On June 22, US B-2 bombers dropped 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bombs, also known as bunker busters, on Iran’s Fordo and Natanz nuclear sites and dozens of submarine-based Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired at its nuclear facility at Isfahan as part of Washington’s campaign against Iran’s nuclear program.
A sixth round of talks between the US and Iran was scheduled for June 15, but Israel launched airstrikes on Iranian military, nuclear and civilian sites June 13.
A 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran ended with a US-sponsored ceasefire that took effect June 24.
