Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said the overriding priority in ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran is to preserve the current ceasefire, cautioning that the alternative, a return to open conflict, would harm both global economic stability and energy security worldwide.
Speaking in an interview broadcast on Al Jazeera, Fidan said the ceasefire must hold above all else. “The alternative to the ceasefire is a return to war, and nobody wants to live through that scenario again, because right now the entire world economy and energy security are being damaged by this war,” he said.
Fidan described the negotiations as inherently uneven in their progress, acknowledging recent setbacks while insisting the process would continue.
He noted that the US had rejected Iran’s most recent proposal but stressed that offers are routinely renegotiated and reframed. Mediators and the…
