“Unfortunately, the United States is damaging this diplomatic process through the contradictory messages it sends, its repeated shifts in positions and demands, and, worst of all, through repeated violations of the ceasefire,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said. “Diplomatic processes do not take place in a vacuum,” Baghaei told reporters. “To advance any negotiation or diplomatic process, a minimum level of conducive conditions is required to allow diplomacy to move forward,” he said. “Any diplomatic process is damaged by the use of force and by resorting to unlawful actions on the ground.”
