Abbas Araghchi made the comments in a piece published by the Guardian newspaper on Tuesday. 

 Araghchi was writing a day after Netanyahu held talks with Trump in the US in which Israel’s calls to consider fresh attacks on Iran were discussed alongside the Gaza peace plan.

 Araghchi made a direct appeal to Trump to set aside Israeli warnings and realise a narrow window has opened to restart negotiations with Iran. It is one of his most direct appeals to Washington to restart talks and include Iran in a recalibrated Middle East.

The US administration now faces a dilemma: it can continue writing blank cheques for Israel with American taxpayer dollars and credibility, or be part of a tectonic change for the better.”

He insisted that Iran remains open to negotiation so long as a capitulation is not required and says an unnecessary crisis can be avoided through talks.

He reveals without naming any specific country that he “has been made aware that there is an unprecedented willingness amongst mutual friends of Iran and the US to facilitate dialogue and underwrite the full and verifiable implementation of any negotiated outcome”.

Araghchi said any future talks could take place in a more propitious context since the assaults on Iran in June had changed diplomatic alliances across the Middle East, showing that Iran has the strategic depth to resist Israel, while in the US hostility towards Israeli brinkmanship is growing.

He wrote that “The shifts in our region can enable implementation of understandings in a whole new way. For those willing to go where no one has gone before, there is a brief window of opportunity. Fortune favours the brave and it takes a lot more guts to break an evil cycle than to simply perpetuate it.

He added “a rising number of Americans realise that Israel is not an ally but a liability”, adding Trump’s Arab allies have come to view Israel’s recklessness as “a threat to us all”.

MNA