Iranian Foreign Minister "Ready for Nuclear Deal"... Signs Dialogue to Trump 'imminent to return'

More than 15 days before U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration, Iran has announced its intention to engage in talks with the West on nuclear negotiations.

"If Western countries can pull out a new agreement, they are ready to start constructive negotiations on their nuclear program immediately," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi said in an interview on China's CCTV on Thursday local time.

Arakchi added that the negotiations he referred to mean "negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement."

The remarks came 10 days before the meeting between Iran and three European countries, Britain, France and Germany, scheduled for the 13th in Geneva.

Attention is focusing on whether Iran will be able to dramatically open negotiations at a time when Iran has recently started to expand its nuclear facilities and preemptive airstrikes are being discussed in the United States.

On the 1st, Minister Arakchi also told Iran's quasi-official news agency that he was "ready to hold fair and honorable negotiations" and "can convince Iran of the peaceful nature of its nuclear program."

Meanwhile, the U.S. media reported that Trump is considering a plan to launch a preventive airstrike on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Axios, a U.S. political media outlet, said on the 2nd that U.S. President Joe Biden also once considered striking nuclear facilities if Iran pursued nuclear weapons development before Trump took office.