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Iran's President said connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026) that helium instructed the country's Foreign Minister to “pursue just and equitable negotiations” with the United States, the archetypal wide motion from Tehran that it wants to effort to negociate arsenic tensions stay precocious with Washington aft the Mideast country's bloody crackdown connected nationwide protests past month.
The announcement marked a large crook for reformist President Masoud Pezeshkian, who had warned Iranians for weeks that the turmoil successful his state had gone beyond his control. It besides signals that the President received enactment from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for talks that the 86-year-old cleric antecedently had dismissed.
But whether Iran and the U.S. tin scope an statement remains to beryllium seen, peculiarly arsenic President Donald Trump has included Iran's atomic programme successful a database of demands from Tehran successful immoderate talks. Mr. Trump ordered the bombing of 3 Iranian atomic sites during the 12-day warfare Israel launched against Iran successful June.
Writing connected X, Pezeshkian said successful English and Farsi that the determination came aft “requests from affable governments successful the portion to respond to the connection by the President of the United States for negotiations.”
“I person instructed my Minister of Foreign Affairs, provided that a suitable situation exists — 1 escaped from threats and unreasonable expectations — to prosecute just and equitable negotiations, guided by the principles of dignity, prudence, and expediency,” helium said.
The U.S. has yet to admit that the talks volition instrumentality place.
