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Monday, June 16, 2025
Iran hints at US role in ending fighting with Israel, says ‘one call’ could shift course
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, appears to make a veiled outreach for the US to step in and negotiate an end to days-long hostilities between Israel and Iran.
In a post on X, Araghchi writes that if Trump is “genuine about diplomacy and interested in stopping this war, next steps are consequential.”
“It takes one phone call from Washington to muzzle someone like Netanyahu,” Iran’s top diplomat continues. “That may pave the way for a return to diplomacy.”
The message to Washington comes as the most recent round of talks between the US and Iran was canceled over the weekend after Israel targeted key military and political officials in Tehran on Thursday.
Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted war criminal. He is also a con man who has duped successive U.S. Presidents into fighting his own wars for almost three decades.
By all indications, the purpose of Netanyahu's criminal attack on Iran—killing hundreds of innocent civilians,… pic.twitter.com/d1p6ZmSEEg
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) June 16, 2025
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