Mediators between Iran and the United States have proposed new ideas, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei confirmed at a press conference on Sunday.
"The principle of the matter is clear: mediators are working and trying to prevent tension from escalating," Baghaei explained.
On the other hand, Baghaei said, Iran was also determined to continue "stopping the crimes" of the US.
"While our armed forces are responding with strength and power and destroying the source and origin of American aggression, diplomacy also knows its duties well and spares no effort."
He emphasized the dual roles diplomacy and defense played in the Iranian strategy, describing both as indispensable.
"To imagine that diplomacy is the negation of defense or that defense is incompatible with diplomacy is not at all correct logic," he explained. "The goal is to protect Iran's national interests; sometimes with the means of defense, sometimes with the means of diplomacy, and sometimes by using both simultaneously."
Memorandum of Understanding unambiguous, Iran claims
Baghaei also denied claims that the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US was ambiguous in any way.
"The text of the memorandum of understanding is a short text and has 14 paragraphs. Read the text; which paragraph is ambiguous?" he retorted. "The text is completely clear, and there is no excuse for the US to break the agreement. Just as we have never seen anywhere before that the American side has announced that it has resumed attacks against Iran due to a mistake or difference in interpretation of the text. Therefore, making such a claim has no valid basis."