During telephone conversations, negotiators tried to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi have spoken by phone several times in the wake of the Israeli attacks that began on June 13, seeking a diplomatic solution to the conflict.
This was reported by Reuters, citing diplomats who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue.
According to the agency's sources, the talks briefly discussed a US proposal to Iran in late May to create a regional consortium to enrich uranium outside Iran. Tehran has so far rejected this proposal.
A regional diplomat close to Tehran said Araghchi told Witkoff that Iran “could be flexible on the nuclear issue” if Washington pressured Israel to end the war.
The European diplomat said: “Araghchi told Witkoff that Iran was ready to return to nuclear talks, but could not if Israel continued bombing.”
A second regional diplomat who spoke to Reuters said “the phone call was initiated by Washington, which also offered a new proposal” to break the deadlock over conflicting red lines.
A senior European diplomat said it was clear at the G7 summit that Trump wants the conflict to end very quickly and that he wants the Iranians to talk to him, while making it clear that they must accept his demands if they want the war to end.
Given the Israeli strikes and Trump's rhetoric, diplomats said Iran was in no position to hold public talks with the United States, while meeting with the Europeans as intermediaries to advance diplomacy was seen as more realistic for Tehran.
Let us recall that earlier, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a statement regarding possible US intervention in the war in the Middle East
