### Briefing Iran has expressed readiness to engage in diplomatic efforts if the United States provides concrete evidence of its sincere desire to achieve a lasting and just resolution to the conflict. Additionally, Araghchi called on the US to return to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding signed in June but subsequently abandoned.
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### Briefing
Iran has expressed readiness to engage in diplomatic efforts if the United…: ### Briefing
Iran has expressed readiness to engage in diplomatic efforts if the United States provides concrete evidence of its sincere desire to achieve a lasting and just resolution to the conflict.
Additionally, Araghchi called on the US to return to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understa…: Additionally, Araghchi called on the US to return to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding signed in June but subsequently abandoned.
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"Iran is prepared to give diplomacy another chance if we see strong evidence of a sincere desire on the part of the US to achieve a just and honourable solution to permanently end this conflict," Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in an op-ed in the Financial Times.
In an earlier interview with Iraqi media, Araghchi urged the US to return to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding that was signed in June but quickly collapsed.
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