Iran Says It Won’t Negotiate As Pentagon Scrambles To Support Longterm OperationsIranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC News Thursday his country is “confident” in its military and will continue to resist, even if U.S. President Donald Trump commits to a ground invasion.“That would be a big disaster for them,” Araghchi predicted. The minister added that Iran has no interest in peace talks with the U.S., and the Trump administration in particular."The fact is that we don’t have any positive experience of negotiating with the United States. You know, especially with this administration. We negotiated twice last year and this year, and then in the middle of negotiations, they attacked us," Araghchi told NBC."So, we see no reason why we should engage once again with those who have, who are not honest in negotiation, and they don’t and do not enter into negotiation in good faith."The show of Iranian resolve comes as the U.S. Military scrambles to align resources for a protracted conflict lasting well beyond what Trump said would only be four weeks.According to a memo obtained by Politico, U.S. Central Command is now asking the Pentagon for staffing support for the Iran conflict through September.“What we’ve seen [from the Trump team so far] is a completely ad hoc operation where it appeared that nobody actually understood or believed that military action was imminent,” Gerald Feierstein, a former senior U.S. diplomat in the Middle East, told Politico. “It seems like they woke up on Saturday morning and decided that they were going to start a war.”See All UpdatesClose