Iran says it won’t tolerate the ‘vicious cycle of war, negotiations, ceasefire’

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baghaei has issued a statement in response to Trump’s speech, in which the US president warned that Iran must agree to a deal within two to three weeks or face strikes on every one of its power plants, Al Jazeera writes.

“We will not tolerate this vicious cycle of war, negotiations, ceasefire, and then repeating the same pattern,” Esmail Baghaei said, describing the ongoing conflict as “catastrophic not only for Iran, but for the entire region and beyond.”

Baghaei said Iran will continue to fight back for as long as US-Israeli strikes continue, and reaffirmed that Tehran does not regard its Gulf neighbours as enemies.

“We have repeatedly said that we are determined to continue our good-neighbourly relations with all of them. The problem is that the United States and Israel are exploiting their territories to carry out their military aggression against Iran,” he said.