Araghchi is making a distinction that the WSJ headline collapsed.
"Never refused to go to Islamabad" versus "unwilling to meet U.S. counterparts" are different claims describing different things. Iran is willing to use the Pakistani channel. Iran is not willing to accept the terms being offered through that channel.
The WSJ framing, "unwilling to meet", implies a process failure. Araghchi's framing, "what we care about are the terms", implies a substance failure. Those are diplomatically very different situations.
If Iran is refusing the channel, there is no path. If Iran is refusing specific terms while accepting the channel, there is a negotiating problem with a potentially solvable structure.
The terms Iran has stated publicly are documented: end to the war, security guarantees against future attacks, recognition of Hormuz governance rights, reparations. Washington has not publicly responded to any of these specifically.
Multiple U.S. intelligence agencies assessed this week that Iran is not willing to engage in substantive negotiations. Araghchi is saying the assessment mischaracterizes the Iranian position, they will talk, they won't capitulate.
The distinction matters more today than any other day of the war. The WSO is missing inside Iran for a second day. A captured American airman changes every term in that negotiation simultaneously. If the channel is open but the terms are the problem, there is a framework for a quiet conversation about the WSO that doesn't exist if Iran has refused the channel entirely.
Pakistan is the key. The channel is the asset. The terms are the obstacle.
BREAKING: Iran's foreign minister has taken to social media to say the country's position is being 'misrepresented by U.S. media', after the Wall Street Journal reported officials were unwilling to meet U.S. counterparts in Pakistan.
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@CharlesDea25765@SkyNews Do you remember 911? These people are terrorist and did threaten us with nuclear weapons.They kill and torture their own. They are not to be trusted. The fact that you trust them is insane!
@SkyNews People don't get it... America is all about taking over oil rich countries.. has nothing to do with nuclear anything, has nothing to do with protesters, has everything to do with a American and Israel regime change.. so usa and Israel can control the oil...
@DanielSkelton44@SkyNews So would you rather we just sit back and let Iran blow us off the map? They are terrorist andTrump is only doing what the Presidents before him talked about but never did.
@SkyNews As an American who voted for trump, 8 am highly disappointed with the last 6 months. He lied about so many things. This is a rich man's war and they expect kids to fight it for them. This is bullshit I wish America had an uprising to take the country back!
@CammyKapri@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta I understand that’s true before segregation but after that we all went to same schools, taught the same and could attend college.Am I missing something that you are not given the same opportunity as whites today?
@lisawelsh418@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta Maam those same programs were originally created for whites so make it make sense lol what same opportunities? From BIRTH we are at the bottom of the food chain.
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@PunkySpunky@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta My local news covers both. Major news outlets are awful not only about that but many other things.I just want to know what opportunities are not being offered to black people today? I understand what went on 100 years ago and it was awful and done by evil stupid people.
@careerdivah@agent1205 That was a long time ago. How does they pertain to days since 1960? You got to go to school and could gets loans for college and get a job just like me. What opportunity have you been denied?
@lisawelsh418@agent1205 Lisa, ever heard of systemic racism? Its when systems are in place that creates racial inequities. What systems, you may ask.... let's start with the Homestead Act where white people were literally given land to build on & farm. Most black people were denied this opportunity.
@wh_doug60609@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta It’s a fact! We all went to same schools, same teachers, could get a loan and go to college & get a job. Tell me what opportunity whites got that blacks didn’t? Most I went to school with are doing pretty well. We all got along and no one complained about racism
@DanielleJBurke1@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta I do not have a racist bone in my body. I just give an opinion on how I see it. Since I have been alive we all went to school, were taught the same, could take out loans to go to college and get a job. Tell me where you haven’t had the same opportunity?
@Michael54237108@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta I don’t watch Fox and google it. Obama spoke in another country and he said it. They both say they are ashamed to live here. They should be with all they have stirred up and the corruption in his term.
@lisawelsh418@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta You sound like you could be on a sitcom playing the racist mother-in-law who constantly says stupid racist things.
Ps. Point out one, just one source where the Obamas talked about hating this country. Your mind has been warped by Fox. You're a caricature of an evil magat Karen.
@Joseph4uio@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta Oh here we go with the name calling. I have been around a long time and I don’t see it here. Educate us on what you are talking about.
@agent1205@lisawelsh418@FOX5Atlanta Blacks do have the same opportunities. They go to the same schools. They are taught by the same teachers. They are welcome at any job. They are welcome at any school. This isn't 1960. How do you explain all the famous blacks? All the successful blacks? Are they white?
@toothlesCrybaby@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta Oh so we have to resort to name calling.Give your opinion but do it rationally. Many of those on welfare chose that route instead of trying to get an education and getting a job and that goes for white people too.
@lisawelsh418@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta Listen hear you bitch .the only racism is coming from you . A low life comments like this makes people tweet like this person did cause it is true. Bitch Obama and people who need the government cause they are hunger and can't afford food has nothing to do with this you bitch
@DeaugustineRock@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta There are whites and blacks in welfare and many of those chose that path and know how to work the system. They chose to get pregnant and have children to get on welfare and then teach their children. We all have the same opportunity to educate ourselves!
@agent1205@lisawelsh418@FOX5Atlanta So which one is it whites are on welfare and blacks are better off or blacks don't have the same opportunities as whites? You seem to pick and choose
@PAdams23088@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta What do you mean get extra points? There are a lot of very intelligent black people. There’s a lot of stupid white people too. I have never heard of black people getting extra points to get a job. How does that work exactly?
@agent1205@lisawelsh418@FOX5Atlanta You realize blacks get extra points on state and federal tests for jobs, want to talk about unfair, Walt Clark you’re a total brain dead idiot, 400 year head start ???
@toothlesCrybaby@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta For what, expressing my opinion? I guess only your opinion is the only one and everyone should agree? That’s not how free speach works
@blkpeaceisreal@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta Before Obama took office it had been more than 49 years since I heard people blaming every thing on racism.At my high school, jobs we all got along.We still love to see each other black and white at our high school reunions and I am almost 66.Maybe different for you
@lisawelsh418@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta “Before Obama you never heard it!” Are you serious? Are you that serious to type that lie you never heard racism? Now you are truly in a state of denial and bewilderment.
@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta My family didn’t have a 400 year start. You the fool! Just because your ancestors were slaves doesn’t mean the people within the past 60 years didn’t. You went to public school, could have gotten a loan for college, gotten a job like so many other educated black people.
@lisawelsh418@FOX5Atlanta You must be uneducated MAGA to ever say blacks have same opportunities as white folks. Btw majority of white folks are on govt assistance. Do your homework fool. You and your family had 400 year head start and still complaining
@Fre5hFiles@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta What does that have to do with anything? My generation didn’t enslave anyone and you are not a slave. You could get a loan for college and get a job like anyone else.
@Michael54237108@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta Racism had completely died down before the Obamas got in office and that’s all they talked about and how much they hated this country. I am no racist and get along great with black people. My generation didn’t enslave them and they could go to college or work like us!
@lisawelsh418@agent1205@FOX5Atlanta You sound wretched. And wrong. And racist. Thinking that POC have been given the same opportunity as white people is so profoundly wrong as to stagger the imagination. And you never heard about racism before Obama? What a crock of crap.