Published On 7/7/2026
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Last update: 09:31 (Mecca time)
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday that the United States must respect its signature on the memorandum of understanding and stop making threats.
Araqchi stressed that talks aimed at reaching a final agreement between Tehran and Washington will not begin if American threats continue, following US President Donald Trump’s threat to “end the mission” if an agreement is not reached.
“Millions of proud Iranians gathered in unity to honor the supreme religious authority, Ayatollah Khamenei, and his legacy,” Araqchi wrote in a post on his page on the “X” website. “No threats will shake them, nor our valiant armed forces.”
He continued: “Paragraph 13 of the Memorandum of Understanding clearly states the following: Negotiations on the final agreement will not begin if the threats continue. Respect your signature.”
Araqchi’s post was referring to an interim agreement signed by Iran and the United States last month, which calls on both sides to refrain from threatening or using force against each other.
Trump waves force: “We will finish the job”
Yesterday evening, Monday, the US President said that Washington will either reach an agreement with Iran or “will finish the job,” repeating his threat to launch military action.
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office: “Either we reach an agreement or we finish the job. Fine. And it won’t be difficult to finish the job. I would rather reach an agreement, because I don’t want it to affect 91 million people.”
He added, “We can demolish their bridges in one hour, and we can cut off their energy supplies. They don’t have any money now. We didn’t give them any money.”
Tehran responds: Address us with respect
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Baqir Zolqadr, described Trump’s threat as “fake.”
He added in statements reported by official media, “The Iranians do not know the language of threats. Therefore, address the Iranian people with respect, otherwise we will respond in another language.”
The mine debate…a parallel crisis with Berlin
For his part, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ismail Baghaei, criticized the German Foreign Minister’s statements regarding the Strait of Hormuz, saying that they were “shameful… and a distortion of reality.”
He added: “Germany must be held responsible for its complicity in the military aggression against us and bear the costs of that.”
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadewohl said in press statements that “it is justified to charge Iran for the cost of removing mines from the Strait of Hormuz,” but he explained that there is no intention at the present time to impose fees for this task.
Vadifol said in statements to the German newspaper “Handelsblatt”: “Iran has violated the law by planting mines in an international shipping lane. If we, in cooperation with other European partners, remove these mines, we do not currently intend to charge any fees for that…but in principle, that will be justified, and Iran must bear the cost, because we are removing damage caused by the regime.”
Indirect talks between the United States and Iran ended last week with no public sign of progress toward a permanent halt to the war, despite a 60-day ceasefire aimed at making room for diplomacy in the wake of the US and Israeli attacks that sparked the conflict.
