🔶 Baghaii: The United States is responsible for violating the agreement and halting the talks

Ismail Baghaii, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic, in his first remarks after the end of the 60-day period stipulated in the Islamabad agreement, said that the United States is responsible for its violation and for the talks being stopped. He claimed that there is no “60-day deadline” in the agreement.

Baghaii said: “The reason for the blatant and extensive violation of the memorandum of understanding of 28 Khordad by the United States—only a few weeks after it was signed—was that no talks were initiated, and as a result, the question of the 60-day deadline also completely lost its relevance.”

Under that memorandum of understanding, Tehran and Washington had pledged to negotiate within a maximum of 60 days—extendable by mutual agreement—over a comprehensive and final agreement to end the war. Given the United States’ attacks on various parts of Iran and the Islamic Republic’s retaliatory measures with attacks on some countries in the region, the ceasefire between the two sides collapsed and the continuation of the negotiations was also halted.