In a telephone call with the President of the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Sayed, Pezeshkian said, according to the official IRNA news agency, that his country does not seek nuclear weapons but wants to continue to assert its"legitimate rights." Iran is "ready to resolve the issues (...) at the negotiating table," Pezeshkian said.

US President Donald Trump now appears not to be seeking"regime change" in Iran after all."Regime change leads to chaos," he said on Tuesday on his flight to the NATO summit in The Hague. Just the weekend, he had not ruled out the overthrow of the leadership in Tehran following the US attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. Echoing his own slogan,"Make America Great Again," he added, in capital letters,"Miga!" (Make Iran Great Again).

Now, when asked about a coup in Iran on Air Force One, he said:"I don't want that. I want everything to calm down as quickly as possible." The US intervened in the war between Israel and Iran overnight into Sunday and attacked the three Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. According to Trump's account, they were completely destroyed.

On Monday, Trump announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. It is now in effect – despite violations the US president has accused both sides of. Israel launched a major attack on Iran on June 13 and has since bombed nuclear facilities and military installations in the country. Iran, in turn, attacked Israel with missiles and drones.