Iran's nuclear, missile power forced US to negotiate - Kayhan

The Islamic Republic is compelled to yield to demands made by the United States in ongoing negotiations primarily because the US retains the option of military action, according to Jalil Roshandel, a professor of international relations.

Roshandel told Iran International that the goals in the talks see Tehran seeking relief from sanctions and financial difficulties, while Washington aims to strip Iran of any military capability.

Roshandel said that “the potential for a US military strike always exists over the Islamic Republic's head," serving as an enforcement mechanism for US demands."It is for this reason that the Islamic Republic is forced to submit to America's demands.”

A senior Iranian foreign ministry official is set to brief lawmakers on recent nuclear negotiations in Rome.

"Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy foreign minister, would attend the committee’s afternoon session to provide a report," said Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesman for parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee.

Rezaei told reporters the briefing would focus on the course and outcomes of the talks with the United States.

The United States conceded to all of Tehran’s positions during recent nuclear negotiations, said an Iranian lawmaker on Sunday.

“Our negotiating team said whatever we asked for, the Americans accepted,” Mohammad Mehdi Shahriari, a member of parliament’s national security committee, was quoted as saying by Iranian media.

This comes as talks between Washington and Tehran continue while no details have been confirmed by US officials.

The daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, a dual-nationality detainee who died in Iranian custody, accused Tehran of using nuclear diplomacy to mask its brutality.

“The world may play your game a little longer. But history is shifting—and you can feel it. A regime built on hostage-taking, barbaric torture and executions cannot survive truth,” Ghazaleh Sharmahd wrote in a post on X, responding to comments by Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi about progress in US-Iran talks.

“Your Khomeinist Islamist Regime killed my father then mutilated his body to silence him. You cut out his tongue. But his voice speaks through us now.”

She dismissed the negotiations as a game and warned Iranian authorities: “I call it your countdown.”

Israel has not decided to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities and would accept a diplomatic resolution if it blocks Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.

“I don’t remember such a decision,” Sa’ar told The Telegraph, responding to a New York Times report that Trump blocked an Israeli strike planned for May.

“If that objective can be achieved by a diplomatic path, it is acceptable.” He warned against trusting Iran, saying it “Iran always mocked its international obligations. I’m not excluding the option that they will try to get some partial agreements, to avoid getting to the necessary solution.”