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Tehran, Iran – 10 March 2025
1. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, arriving for briefing
2. Wide of briefing
3. Camera display
4. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman:
"This accusation (Iran having a role in Syrian conflicts) is ridiculous and is rejected. We think that the pointing fingers at Iran and its friends are pointing in the wrong direction. This is an attempt to mislead and divert attention from the truth. Such a thing does not exist at all."
5. Wide of briefing
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman:
"Murdering innocent people from various Syrian groups must stop immediately, especially the minorities that have been exposed to harm and crimes."
7. Mid of photographer
8. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman:
(Responding to question on whether Iran had received a letter from U.S seeking a new nuclear deal)
"No, no letter has been received."
9. Wide of briefing
10. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Esmail Baghaei, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman:
"Regional countries should take into account their own national interests and their good ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran when making decisions. They should not allow illegal pressure and bullying by America to negatively impact their relations with the Iranian people, or create discord and sedition in regional countries."
11. Wide of briefing
12. Baghaei leaving podium
STORYLINE:
Iran on Monday denied it had received any letter from U.S President Donald Trump seeking a new nuclear deal.
Trump claimed to have sent a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei advocating a new deal with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear programme and replace the agreement he withdrew America from during his first term in office.
However, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, said no such letter had been received.
Iranian state media immediately picked up on Trump’s acknowledgment, given in excerpts from a Fox Business Network interview that aired last Friday — though there was no confirmation from Khamenei’s office that any letter had been received.
Khamenei said on Saturday he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restrictions on Iranian missile range and its influence in the region.
Iran on Sunday said it would consider negotiations with the United States if the talks were confined to concerns about the militarization of its nuclear programme.
Baghaei also refuted allegations that Iran has played a role in the recent clashes in Syria.
An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days.
The attack Thursday near the port city of Latakia reopened the wounds of the country’s 13-year civil war and sparked the worst violence Syria has seen since December, when insurgents led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, overthrew Assad.
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