Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei says that negotiations require “at the very least, a genuine attempt to engage in discussions with a view to resolving the dispute”, citing paragraph 157 of a judgment from the International Court of Justice from April 2011.

“It needs ‘good faith’, then, meaning that ‘negotiations’ is not ‘disputation’; nor is it ‘dictation’, ‘deception’, ‘extortion’ or ‘coercion’,” Baghaei adds in a post on X.