After a round of talks with foreign ministers from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, as well as the European Union (E.U.)’s foreign policy chief, in Geneva on Friday, Araqchi told reporters that Iran had told its interlocutors it was concerned about their failure to condemn the Israeli war of aggression that started on June 13.

Minister Araqchi said he told the Europeans that Iran would continue to exert its right to self-defense.

“Iran is ready to consider diplomacy if the aggression stops and the aggressor is held accountable for its crimes. In this regard, we made it clear that Iran’s capabilities, including its missile capabilities, are non-negotiable,” the foreign minister said.

Minister Araqchi traveled to Geneva on Friday to meet with his counterparts from Germany, the United Kingdom, and France (known as the European troika or the E3) and the E.U.’s foreign policy chief.

The E3 had requested the meeting. The subjects of the talks are the Israeli war of aggression on Iran as well as Iran’s nuclear program.

Araqchi added in his remarks after the meeting that Iran welcomed continued talks with the E3 and the E.U. and expressed readiness to meet again in the near future.

The Israeli regime attacked Iran, including residential buildings in Tehran, in an unprovoked act of aggression overnight on June 13. Top Iranian military officials were assassinated in targeted strikes. Civilians died when houses were directly struck. Entire population centers were affected.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei appointed new military commanders later that same day and said life would turn bleak for Israel. Shortly afterwards, the Iranian Armed Forces promised to “open the gates of hell” to Israel and began waves of punitive strikes inside the Israeli-occupied territories, hitting sensitive sites in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, among other cities, with salvos of missiles and drones. Despite heavy Israeli censorship, abundant footage has appeared of the Iranian missiles hitting their targets in precision strikes and wreaking mayhem.

Life has come to a halt in the occupied territories as Israelis spend day and night in underground bomb shelters. Many Israelis are paying large sums of money to smugglers to take them to Greece and Cyprus by boat.

Iranian officials have said the mission will continue as long as necessary.

Bending under the Iranian strikes, the Israeli regime has been clamoring to coax the United States into joining the war of aggression on Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei has warned the United States that its potential intervention would bring America “irreparable harm.”

Iran was involved in indirect negotiations with the United States when the Israeli regime attacked