Details of various diplomatic processes to manage tensions with the U.S. are being examined by Iran, Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday, adding that Tehran hoped for results in the coming days.
Amid a military buildup by the U.S. Navy near Iran, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters last week that Iran was “seriously talking” with Washington, hours after Tehran’s top security official Ali Larijani said on X that arrangements for negotiations were underway.
“Regional countries are the go-between for messages that have been exchanged. Various points have been exchanged and we are currently deciding and examining the details of each diplomatic process that we hope will bring results in coming days,” Baghaei said.
“This pertains to the process and framework of (talks),” he added.
On Sunday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that any attack by the United States would spark a “regional war” in the Mideast.
“We are not the initiators and do not want to attack any country, but the Iranian nation will strike a strong blow against anyone who attacks and harasses them,” he said.
Asked about the warning, Trump told reporters that the U.S. “has the biggest, most powerful ships in the world over there, very close, a couple of days, and hopefully we’ll make a deal. If we don’t make a deal, then we’ll find out whether or not he was right.”
This comes as the U.S. Navy is currently deploying six destroyers, one aircraft carrier, and three littoral combat ships in the region.
Meanwhile, Iran had reportedly planned a live-fire military drill for Sunday and Monday in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes. The U.S. military’s Central Command had warned against threatening American warships or aircraft during the drill or disrupting commercial traffic.
An Iranian official, however, denied the reports issued by state-run Press TV, telling the Reuters news agency they have no such plan and the media reports are wrong.
