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Iran said on Tuesday that the only solution to the conflict over its nuclear program is negotiation, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Tehran is developing intercontinental missiles that can reach the United States.
"There is no other solution than a negotiated outcome," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi wrote on X today.
The head of Iranian diplomacy stated that Israel "deceived" the United States into attacking three nuclear facilities during the 12-day war in June and is now trying to do the same.
"With the failure of that action (the June attacks), Israel is now trying to turn our defense capability into an imaginary threat," said Araqchí.
Netanyahu said yesterday that Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles with a range of 8,000 kilometers that could threaten US territory.
"Iran is developing intercontinental missiles with a range of 8,000 kilometers, add another 3,000 and it can reach the east coast of the United States," Netanyahu said in an interview with journalist Ben Shapiro.
With that ballistic capability, Iran "can put New York, Boston, Washington or Miami within reach of its atomic weapons," the Israeli leader assured.
For his part, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that if Iran tries to "restart its nuclear program" the United States "will also take care of that", referring to possible attacks against the Persian country.
Iran possesses a powerful missile program and has ballistic missiles capable of reaching up to 2,000 kilometers, enough to reach Israel, as demonstrated during the June war when Tehran launched daily attacks against Israeli territory.
Araqchí stated in his post on X that "buildings and machines can be destroyed, but our determination will NEVER be broken" so he assured that the only solution is negotiation.
Iran and the United States held five rounds of indirect negotiations about the Iranian nuclear program, but those contacts have been stalled since the 12-day war in June.
As a result of the failure of those negotiations, the United Nations reinstated its sanctions against Iran in late September for its nuclear program at the initiative of Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, the European countries of the 2015 nuclear agreement.
That agreement limited the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, but the United States abandoned it in 2018 and Iran responded by accelerating its nuclear program to the 440 kilograms of uranium at 60% that it now possesses.
