Publish: 17:00, 18 Apr, 2026

‘Iran has not agreed to second round of negotiations’

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‘Iran has not agreed to second round of negotiations’

Tehran has not yet agreed to a second round of negotiations with Washington, an unnamed Iranian source told Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, Al Jazeera reported. 

Iran believes the US put forward excessive demands during their exchange of messages, and has made dropping those demands one of its conditions for continuing negotiations, the source added.

Tehran has conveyed its conditions to Washington through a Pakistani intermediary.

“We informed the American side of our non-agreement to a second round through the Pakistani intermediary,” the source said.

Tehran has also made clear it does not want to waste time in drawn-out negotiations that yield no results.

bd-pratidin/GR

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