Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has highlighted that Iran was in the middle of talks and negotiations with European countries two days ago when the US “betrayed” diplomacy, Al Jazeera reports.

“We were in the middle of diplomacy. We were in the middle of talks with the United States when Israelis blew it up,” Araghchi said, referring to Tel Aviv’s June 13 strikes.

“And again, we were in the middle of talks and negotiation with Europeans [that] happened only two days ago in Geneva, when this time, Americans decided to blow it up.”

Asked what the conditions would be for Iran to come back to the negotiation, the minister said it was “irrelevant” to ask Iran to return to diplomacy.

“It was not Iran, but the US that betrayed diplomacy. They betrayed negotiations.”

“I think they have proved that they are not men of diplomacy, and they only understand the language of threat and force. And this is very unfortunate.”