Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA that reports of a finalized agreement with the United States were “merely speculation” and said Tehran had not yet made a final decision on any deal.
Baghaei said Qatar and Pakistan were “active as mediators,” but added that “US actions are affecting the diplomatic process.”
“From the beginning, the status of the negotiations was clear to us, and a large portion of the text had already been finalized. However, the Americans kept changing their positions,” Baghaei said, according to IRNA.
He added that Iran had “proven that it does not compromise on what it has defined as its red lines.”
“So far, Iran has not reached a final decision regarding any agreement,” he said.
He also said the situation in the Strait of Hormuz had become “less secure because of U.S. actions.”
Earlier on Thursday, President Donald Trump said he was canceling the strikes against Iran that he had previewed hours earlier because “final points” of a deal with the country had been approved.
“Based on the fact that discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran have been brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved, I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
