Pezeshkian says Iran won’t attend nuclear talks while Israel attacks

By AFP 14 June 2025, 9:22 pm Edit

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks to navy officials, in Tehran, Iran, May 17, 2025. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says that Tehran would not attend nuclear talks with the United States so long as Israel kept up its attacks on the Islamic Republic.

In a call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, Pezeshkian says Iran favored diplomacy, but will not “accept irrational demands under pressure or… sit at the negotiating table while the Zionist regime continues its attacks,” according to a readout shared by the Iranian presidency.

Macron said in a statement of his own that he had asked Pezeshkian to “return swiftly to the negotiating table.”