Iran Doubts Securing Interests Through Talks with the US

Iran's intelligence minister stated that Tehran has little trust in the ability to secure the country's national interests through negotiations with the United States.

“We have no trust in any negotiation with America that claims to secure our national interests,” Esmail Khatib said during a meeting in the western Iranian province of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari on Wednesday, The Caspian Post reports citing Iranian media.

According to Khatib, Washington’s claims of pursuing talks with Iran mask its “hostility towards the Iranian nation.”

The official cited extensive efforts by the US, the Israeli regime, and the country’s other enemies at subversion, sowing chaos, and disintegrating the country during the 12-day war, which was imposed by Washington and Tel Aviv in June.

According to Press TV, he noted how the unprovoked aggression had been preceded by years of the enemies’ seeking to isolate Iran through massive propaganda, turn the world against it, and drive the people away from the country’s Islamic Revolution.

Throughout the aggression, the adversaries sought to implement a comprehensive hybrid operation by employing the latest Western technologies and warfare knowledge, the minister added.

The war, he remarked, had also been preceded by multiple joint drills, organization of counterrevolutionary elements, reviving of terrorist networks, and mobilization of the world’s media arsenal to spread Iranophobia and Shiaphobia.

The adversaries had even planned to send all the Takfiri terrorists released from Syria and Afghanistan towards the country, the official noted.

He also underlined that more than 50 foreign intelligence services contributed to the hostile efforts.

According to Khatib, these developments as well as similar aggression waged by the Israeli regime through American support against such parts of the world as Gaza and Lebanon, debunks the enemies’ so-called “peace through strength” claim.

“The whole world now understands the true meaning of ‘peace through strength’ by these criminals,” he said, noting that the claim actually translates into “submission through crime.”

Khatib, however, hailed the strategic prowess exercised by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the successful defensive and retaliatory operations that were staged by the Iranian Armed Forces, and the deep-seated unity within various ranks across the country for foiling the hybrid warfare.