Persian → English transcript

Of course, let me say this, we didn't have preconditions anywhere in that sense.

Preconditions in what sense?

At one time, even on these very streets, they put up banners with five preconditions.

The statement that I mentioned from our friends, I said we didn't write these preconditions like this,

Do you even know what the word "precondition" means?

It means, "Until these are realized, we won't negotiate at all."

Where did we? I mean, in which document has this been repeatedly said?

It might be our demand, but anyway, when you negotiate, it proceeds within a framework.

Of course, we had told the mediator that, in any case, this discussion regarding Lebanon

and the discussion regarding the frozen funds, this was one of our serious discussions,

which are clearly the focus of our negotiations.

Well, when we went there, right from when we were at the airport,

Because of the long distance to Venezuela, for me, my friends, and my colleagues, whom I thank from the bottom of my heart,

During these days, we were heavily subjected to psychological operations and actions...

Anyway, we are negotiating, after all.

We kept everyone under close scrutiny.

When I heard Mr. Vance's words while boarding the plane, as he was coming from there…

And we from Tehran, almost at the same time… when they had one minute of travel, we had three hours…

When I saw that there, that a comment had been made regarding Lebanon…

Right there at the airport, before I took off…

I definitely stated there that Lebanon is an issue that, until it is clarified…

We won't start the negotiation; we must clarify this there.

Even if we enter the negotiation, before getting into anything, we must first settle Lebanon.

And we went there, believe me, when we got off the plane at the airport…

It was midnight; we arrived there at 12:30 a.m.

And actually, I hadn't slept the night before either.

During the three-hour flight, we were brainstorming with our friends.

We talked constantly until we arrived there.

When we got off the plane, with Mr. Asif Munir…

As a mediator, which was available, with their foreign minister,

we spoke with him for two and a half hours solely about the Lebanon issue.

Because the other issues were clear, we discussed this with him.

And I told him in the morning, meaning three or four hours later,

was the arrival of the American delegation here.

I said, "In short..." Then I found out right there

that Mr. Vance, who had arrived at the airport,

had spoken about this, meaning Lebanon, to the same extent.

Before the afternoon sessions were about to start,

Mr. Asim Munir, as a mediator, spoke with me twice.

He said, "We have discussed these matters."

At the beginning of the meeting, once the meeting started,

in fact, a trilateral one, for the discussions to begin,

the very first topic was Mr. Vance telling me,

"Apparently, you had some discussions regarding Lebanon."

It was like this, Mr. [Vance] said something,

They said, "This is our serious issue."

Then, after I explained, he accepted it.

He said, "Yes, this negotiation is a method of struggle, this is it."

Meaning, this was the issue.

Right now, let me tell you, eleven...

If you look at this agreement,

regarding the issue of assets,

clause four, clause five, clause ten,

and now I say this, which is the result of yesterday's work, clause one.

These clauses are the ones we first agreed upon,

these must be implemented or completed.

A part of it was to be implemented to move on to another clause.