Iran’s ambassador to China says Tehran has “no confidence” in the United States going forward even as both sides paused military strikes to restart stalled peace talks, Al Jazeera reports.
Speaking to reporters at the Iranian embassy in Beijing, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has stressed that Iran only takes retaliatory actions in response to US attacks and suggested that China could take a leading role in peace negotiations.
“We have always emphasised that, in addition to our will to defend, we are also ready to negotiate. However, given the US’s lack of commitment to the [Islamabad] memorandum of understanding and its reneging on its commitments, Iran has no confidence in the American side,” he says.
