Hawzah News Agency - According to France 24, US President Donald Trump said Friday that he has written to Iran, pressing for talks on preventing the development of nuclear weapons and warning it faces possible military action if not.
Iran's foreign minister told AFP on Friday that the country would not negotiate so long as the United States applies "maximum pressure," but he was not responding directly to Trump's letter.
Tehran's mission to the United Nations told AFP that "we have not received such a letter so far." It was unclear by what means Trump's missive was transmitted to Tehran.
Trump said he wrote a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei telling him that a negotiated solution "will be a lot better for Iran."
"I've written them a letter, saying I hope you're going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily it's going to be a terrible thing for them," Trump told Fox Business in a clip broadcast Friday.
Iran warns against US threats
Iran has been cautious about a return to diplomacy since the collapse of the JCPOA.
"We will not enter any direct negotiations with the US so long as they continue their maximum pressure policy and their threats," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told AFP on Friday.
Speaking on the sidelines of an Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Jeddah, Araghchi also warned that Iran's nuclear program "cannot be destroyed through military operations."
"This is a technology that we have achieved, and the technology is in the brains and cannot be bombed," he said.
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