Talks with the United States are aimed at protecting Iran’s rights, “not surrender,” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday, Anadolu reports.

“If there is any talk or negotiation, it does not mean surrender or withdrawal, but rather, the goal is to secure the rights of the Iranian nation and strongly protect national interests,” Pezeshkian said in a statement broadcast by state news agency IRNA.

Iran “will never bow to the enemy,” he vowed during a meeting of a US-Israeli war damage reconstruction task force.

Regional tensions have escalated since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, prompting retaliation from Tehran against Israel as well as US allies in the Persian Gulf, along with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Hormuz.

A ceasefire came into effect on April 8 through Pakistani mediation, but talks in Islamabad failed to produce a lasting agreement. The truce was then extended by Donald Trump indefinitely, paving the way for diplomacy toward a permanent solution to the war.

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