Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Thursday said Iran has every reason not to trust US, while US have every reason to trust Iran.
The Iranian minister, who is in India for a BRICS conclave, said there is no military solution to anything related to Iran, even as he called for a "greater role" for India in the peace talks on West Asia.
"Iran has every reason not to trust US while Americans have every reason to trust us," he said, adding “We will welcome any constructive role by India.”
Highlighting the trust deficit from the Iranian side on the Americans, Araghchi said the negotiations were suffering owing to this.
The Iranian foreign minister said Tehran was ready to help ships of those countries which were not at war with Iran to transit through the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran had effectively blocked the strait, a critical passage for global energy supplies, since the US-Israeli attacks on Iran began on February 28. The strait had earlier handled about one-fifth of the world's oil and gas supply.
