No date set for more US talks until ‘framework’ agreed, says Iran’s deputy foreign minister

[0:00] trying to sabotage the path of the diplomatic efforts through this diplomatic circus that they [0:12] are adopting they thought that the force and the pressure and the escalation is part of the [0:22] solution no these cannot be for the benefit of anyone diplomacy must prevail one by one place [0:35] president trump said that if there is no agreement on wednesday there will be a return to the military [0:43] action then let's president trump talk he talks too much he said contradictory things within the same [0:53] statement this cannot be prevailed i don't know what exactly he meant the american people must decide [1:00] about him if his statements are aligned and if they are going with international law [1:10] then we will continue our defense with all heroism with all nationalism and patriotism we will defend [1:18] iran the oldest civilization on the planet we will fight till the last iranian soldier war cannot [1:29] lead to any positive solution the americans must understand and must learn the lesson the era of [1:39] colonialism must come to an end they cannot dictate the orders on the other nations and if everyone [1:51] concentrates on peace and stability this will be for the benefit of everyone and this will be a chance [1:58] but if they chose to try to be the aggressor and to go back to the war they will see the answers from iran we [2:11] will never hesitate in responding with all force the question is not clear regarding the opening of the [2:27] strait of homos let me say that it is within our territorial waters and whatsoever the americans [2:36] say whatsoever the place they are trying to go through i will say that the blockade will never be valid [2:47] and let me tell you there will never be any blockade in the future no one can dictate their desires on us [2:57] the iranians what about the support of arabidjan we appreciate all the efforts of all our friends including [3:09] arabidjan and turkey and other countries all these countries have good relations with iran and the [3:18] presidents of both countries have phone calls since the very start of the war we appreciate every decency [3:29] from the countries of the region but this aggression was not legal at all and the iranian defense [3:42] is legal according to the international law the last question please what is your expectation regarding [3:51] the pakistani mediation we concentrate on putting and developing a memorandum of understanding a new [3:59] framework and we will never go into talks and negotiations that will lead to failure and [4:07] we will never accept to be facing another round of aggression we have entered talks and negotiations [4:14] with all goodwill the in january we were in the middle of these talks but the attractors and they [4:23] have violated the rules of diplomacy we need to be fully aware regarding the goodwill of every party [4:33] particularly the americans because of their previous aggressions we reached that point now this war [4:41] is a defense from us and aggression from the other side and we have seen them assassinating [4:50] ayatollah al khomeini the leader of iran in his office they have killed other commanders it's not [5:00] in the front line with their neighbors so this was a war crime and and and during the war the first [5:09] minutes of the of the aggression they also attacked and bombed an elementary school and and they slaughtered [5:17] 168 small kids at the age of 7 to 11 years old all the media you have to reflect the ugly picture of this [5:26] aggression and you have to be careful not justifying the ill political agenda of those who started [5:33] this aggression israeli regime wanted to have the greater israel and and to to to change the geopolitics [5:41] of the region so this defense that iran is doing is on behalf of the whole region is on behalf of all [5:47] the three countries and we can we have they don't have any option just to win this resistance which we are [5:54] very much determined to do that until until we agree on the framework uh we cannot you know set the [6:05] date as soon as we agree no there was a significant you know actually progress made but then this [6:13] maximalist approach by the other side trying to make iran an exception international law prevented us to [6:20] reach an agreement i have to be very crystal clear that iran would not accept to be an exception [6:26] from the international law anything that we are going to be committed we are going to commit [6:31] within these international regulations thank you thank you so much uh it was good and we want to thank [6:45] the people who are the region president of abri vijan who showed that in difficult times we can rely [6:52] on them thank you very much thank you i was very clear that whatever we accept would will be within [7:00] the within the international regulation and international law no government in iran can commit [7:07] the country beyond the international law i told and i will repeat it again iran would not accept to be [7:14] an exception from the international law we are member of non-poly-reflection treaty we are member of iaea [7:20] and and we are going to commit we do have responsibilities and we do have rights iran [7:26] is entitled to the rights and we are not going to abandon our rights thank you very much thank you [7:32] that was zayed katab zaidi an iranian deputy foreign minister saying that he cannot set a date [7:39] for talks with the united states until we agree to the framework for those talks he said war cannot lead [7:45] to any positive solution and that uh we will never hesitate uh to respond with force [7:57] you