The Iranian President, Massoud Pezeshkian, said that negotiations between Tehran and Washington can only succeed without pressure and threats during a speech at the IEC summit.
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09/10/2026
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O Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian said today in Turkmenistan that negotiations between Tehran and Washington can only succeed without pressure and threats.
“The dialogue only makes sense and has chances of success if it is based on mutual respect and mutual commitments, and if it is free from any pressure or threat,” he said in a speech at the Community of Independent States (IEC) summit.
“ A negotiation conducted under the threat of force is not a negotiation,” said the Iranian President, adding that sanctions against Iran also harm trade and order in the region.
On Monday, Massoud Pezeshkian said that negotiating with the United States to put an end to the war unleashed in February by Israeli-American attacks did not make any sense, describing Washington as a “enemy that practices daily murders, sanctions and pressures, and that does not meet the commitments.
More than seven months after the first attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran, the talks between Washington and Tehran seem to be at a standstill.
Despite the conclusion of a ceasefire in April, the signing of a memorandum of understanding in June and exchanges of messages on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in September, the United States and Iran continue to disagree on the strategic Strait of Ormuz, regularly making threats to further attacks.
The U.S. and Iranian authorities met at the end of September in New York, on the margins of the UN General Assembly, before Iran proposed a plan to reopen the Strait of Ormuz within seven days, mainly in exchange for lifting US economic sanctions against the country.