Iranian Foreign Minister: No negotiations with the U.S. but information exchange is happening

Golden Finance reports that on April 1, local time March 31, Iran’s Foreign Minister Aragchi said the current situation is “not negotiations,” but rather an exchange of information through direct channels or via “regional friends.” Iran is still receiving messages from U.S. envoy Witkoff, but this does not mean that negotiations have been launched; the related communications are mainly “warnings or the exchange of viewpoints.” He noted that Iran is currently not holding talks with any specific party. The information-exchange work is carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in coordination with security institutions, and it is advanced strictly within official frameworks under the oversight of the government and the Supreme National Security Council. Aragchi emphasized that Iran has not responded to any of the 15 proposals put forward by the United States, nor has it proposed any ideas or conditions. Iran has not yet made a final decision on the principles for negotiations, but Iran’s conditions for ending the war are “very clear”: Iran “will not agree to a ceasefire,” but instead demands “the complete end of the war across the entire region.”