When asked by Al Jazeera about Trump’s earlier suggestion that the US would have “some sort of a relationship” with Iran in the future, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei dismissed months of “contradictory remarks” from the US.

“While they [US officials] have been talking about diplomacy, they greenlighted the Israelis to attack Iran,” said Baqaei, asking how that could allow “any trust” to remain.

“They (the US) torpedoed diplomacy,” he went on.

While Baqaei said Iran believes “diplomacy never ends” and even engaged with “different actors” amid the war with Israel, he stressed that the country’s top priority is national security and would have to ascertain whether the US is “really serious” about diplomacy before re-engaging.