Araghchi's comments followed a harder line from other senior Iranian officials who met Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir in Tehran earlier Tuesday. Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei declared that "not a single gram of enriched uranium will be removed from Iran" and ruled out talks until the US takes steps to build trust, while Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Tehran had "nothing new to say" until Washington meets seven preconditions. Those demands include lifting all US sanctions and the naval blockade, releasing $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets, paying $300 billion in compensation, withdrawing US troops from the region and implementing a comprehensive regional ceasefire. President Masoud Pezeshkian also told Munir that Iranians "believe that if we negotiate, they will attack us again."
The statements pushed back against a report by Qatari owned Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Munir delivered a US backed compromise offering Iran the interest on $6 billion in frozen funds held in Qatar in exchange for unannounced International Atomic Energy Agency inspections. After Munir announced the reopening of the Iran-Pakistan border and departed Tehran, Iranian outlets issued conflicting accounts of further mediation: Nour News reported that a Qatari delegation arrived in the capital before leaving in less than an hour, whereas IRGC affiliated Tasnim cited an informed source denying any Qatari visit was planned or took place.