Turkey’s foreign minister said on Monday there is no immediate threat of a military conflict between Iran and the United States, stressing Ankara is working to avert a “disaster”.
"At the moment, there does not seem to be at least an immediate threat of war (between Iran and the United States)," Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told CNN Turk.
"One night during the 12-day June war, we received a phone call from the US Secretary of State (Rubio) who said, 'Tell the Iranians, anything can happen in a few hours'. I talked to my Iranian counterpart and he said, “How can that be possible? We had set a date for the meeting.”
"It was the US that was talking, and Israel that was striking. This time the situation may be different. We are doing everything we can to prevent a disaster," Fidan said.
Asked about the possibility of regime change in Iran, Fidan said, "The regime does not change with an airstrike or anything else. It's a pipe dream."
"The problem is not the regime itself, the problem is the decisions and policies taken by the regime. There are also regimes that are more centrally totalistic than the Iranian regime."
He warned that if an Iran-US war breaks out, it is not clear where it will stop.
"If there is genuine will to resolve the issue, you can see its impact on the ground. What matters to us is that as talks move toward a concrete outcome, the threat of war also steadily recedes," he added.
