SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Iran's final decision not to attend Islamabad talks on Wednesday and the reasons behind this decision:

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Iran's Tasnim News Agency reports on Iran's final decision not to attend Islamabad talks on Wednesday and the reasons behind this decision:
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• "Despite all the media atmosphere-building and rumor-mongering by American officials, the Iranian negotiating team, for various reasons, has informed the American side through the Pakistani intermediary that it will not be present in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, and for now there is no outlook for participating in the negotiations either."

• "Relevant sources believe regarding the reason for the absence: after Pakistan entered into mediation and requested a ceasefire from the American side, Iran, based on the 10-point framework it presented and which was accepted by the US, accepted this ceasefire and the negotiations that followed it to end the war."

• "Pakistan also explicitly announced the acceptance of this framework by the Americans. However, immediately afterward, in the following days, breaches of commitment by the Americans began."

• "The Americans first, by completely violating their commitments, did not impose the ceasefire in Lebanon on Israel, and this issue for several days confronted the negotiations with serious obstacles."

• "Also, the Americans in the very first round of the Islamabad negotiations that was held, raised many excessive demands which effectively violated those initial frameworks, and this issue completely brought this round of negotiations to a deadlock, because despite defeat in the field, the US believed it could compensate for failure in the war through excessive demands in negotiations."

• "In any case, a few days after the Islamabad negotiations, the US, faced with Iran’s definite threat of a missile attack on Israel, was forced to operationalize the ceasefire in Lebanon."

• "After that, Seyyed Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, announced that Iran, based on the initial ceasefire framework, would reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial ships within that agreed initial framework. However, this action by Iran was immediately accompanied by hostile action by the Americans in continuing the claimed naval blockade."

• "In the messages exchanged in recent days as well, the Americans did not retreat from excessive demands and demands against the definite rights of the Iranian nation, and no meaningful progress was made in the exchanged messages."

• "For this reason, Iran ultimately announced today that under these conditions, participating in negotiations is a waste of time, because the US is preventing any appropriate agreement from being reached. Therefore, it will not enter into the American game."

• "This matter has been announced today through the Pakistani intermediary as well, and Iran, to fully safeguard the rights of its nation, will not be present in Pakistan tomorrow."