Immediate negotiations with the US “make no sense”, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragi said while US President Donald Trump proposed immediate negotiations with Tehran for her nuclear program while threatening to bomb the country.

“Immediate negotiations with a side that is constantly threatening to resort to violence (…) and which expresses conflicting positions from various officials would have no meaning,” Arakzi said, according to his ministry today.

“But we remain committed to diplomacy and are ready to test the path of indirect negotiations,” Arakzi added.

Western countries, first in the US, have been suspected for decades that Tehran wants to acquire a nuclear weapon. Iran rejects these charges and states that its nuclear activities are exclusively peaceful.

In March, Trump sent a letter to Iranian officials calling them into negotiations on their country’s nuclear program. But at the same time the Republican threatened to bomb Iran in the event of diplomacy and imposed new sanctions on the Iranian oil sector.

The US president said on Thursday that he would prefer to have “immediate negotiations” with Iran because “you are moving faster and you understand the other side much better.”

“If anyone wants to negotiate, what does he benefit to threaten?” The Iranian President Masson Pescian asked.

Iran signed an agreement on its nuclear program in 2015 with the permanent members of the UN Security Council (USA, China, Russia, France and Britain) and Germany, which provided for restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear activities in exchange for removing international sanctions.

But in 2018, during his first term in the US presidency, Trump unilaterally withdrew the country from the agreement and reinstated sanctions against Tehran.