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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Tehran, March 6 (Xinhua) – Iran is not asking the United States and Israel for a ceasefire and sees no reason to negotiate with Washington. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated this in an interview with the American television channel NBC News, aired Thursday.
“We are not asking for a ceasefire and we see no reason why we should negotiate with the US when we have negotiated with them twice and each time they attacked us in the midst of negotiations,” he said.
Commenting on the possibility of a US ground invasion of Iran, A. Araghchi said: “We are waiting for them because we are confident that we can resist them, and this would be a great disaster for them.”
Iran is fully prepared for an ongoing conflict and any scenario, even a ground invasion, the minister emphasized. The country's armed forces have prepared for any scenario, he added.
Iran also said on Thursday that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) navy carried out an unmanned aerial strike on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which was located in the Gulf of Oman, 340 kilometers from the country's territorial waters.
Khatam al-Anbiya, the central headquarters of the Islamic Republic's armed forces, told state television channel IRIB TV that after the attack, the aircraft carrier and its accompanying destroyers hastily retreated and are currently more than 1,000 kilometers from the region. –0–
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