According to a New York Post report, Iran has rejected the Trump Administration’s push to renew nuclear talks amid escalating tensions in the Middle East.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi vowed there was no room for negotiations with the United States “until Israeli aggression stops.”
“Americans want to negotiate and have sent messages several times, but we clearly said that as long as this aggression doesn’t stop, there’s no place for talk of dialogue,” he said in an address on state television.
He accused the US, too, of being a “partner to Israeli crime against Iran.”
Retired four-star Gen. Jack Keane warned Friday that he doesn’t believe Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will ever agree to no more uranium enrichment.
“The Ayatollah going into this, and the reason why he has never made a deal, is because he had built an enterprise to survive an attack — and he believes they can absorb the attack, survive it, recover it, and then rebuild,” Gen. Keane said in an interview on “Fox & Friends.”
“That is where this guy is. And I don’t see him, in the near term, making the deal here whatsoever,” he added.
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@gen_jackkeane tells @kilmeade that Iran's proxies have "lost their political will" pic.twitter.com/9FohTTgEZZ
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During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that President Trump was taking two weeks to decide how to deal with Iran.
“I have a message directly from the president, and I quote, ‘based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,’” Leavitt said at a White House briefing quoting Trump.
“That’s a quote directly from the president for all of you today.”
“He’s been very clear,” she added. “Iran went for 60 days when he gave them that a 60-day warning without coming to the table. On day 61, Israel took action against Iran. And as I just told you from the president directly, he will make a decision within two weeks in.
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.@PressSec shares a message from President Trump: "Based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks." pic.twitter.com/r3yVnbZHAC
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 19, 2025