Iran's president signaled a more diplomatic tone amid heightened tensions and distrust over nuclear negotiations weeks after both Israel and the United States launched strikes aimed at ending Iran's nuclear program. His remarks suggest Iran is looking to ease international pressure and avoid escalation.

Iran said on Monday there would be no new nuclear talks with the United States if they were conditioned on Tehran abandoning its uranium enrichment activities. Washington and Tehran had been engaged in several rounds of negotiations seeking to strike a deal on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme,

They say Iran must abandon uranium enrichment, but this is one of our red lines. If talks are conditional on halting enrichment, they simply won’t happen," said Ali Velayati, senior adviser to Supreme