Iran is uncertain whether it can trust the United States in diplomatic talks after Israel launched an aerial attack on the country only days before scheduled negotiations with American officials.

Axar.az reports Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said this Friday in an exclusive interview with NBC News.

Asked by NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell whether a deal with the United States could be reached within the two-week time frame recently given by President Donald Trump, Araghchi said it was up to the Trump administration “to show their determination for going for a negotiated solution.”

But he suggested Washington was perhaps not genuinely interested in diplomacy and had merely used talks as a “cover” for Israel’s air attack.

at her Thursday briefing, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered what she said was a message from Trump: “Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.” (Promising some action or decision in “two weeks” is a frequent thing for Trump — he has done so over a dozen times just in the last two months — and he often does not make good on it.)

Israel, a staunch U.S. ally, last week launched airstrikes two days before a sixth round of negotiations between U.S. and Iranian officials, with intermediaries from Oman, had been scheduled to take place. U.S. officials said the administration was not involved in the Israeli military operation.

“So they had perhaps this plan in their mind, and they just needed negotiations perhaps to cover it up,” Araghchi said. “We don’t know how we can trust them anymore. What they did was, in fact, a betrayal to diplomacy.”

During the interview, which was conducted in Geneva after he held talks with European top diplomats, Araghchi said that his government was ready to negotiate but that Israel first had to halt its aerial attacks on Iran.

“We’re not prepared to negotiate with them anymore, as long as the aggression continues,” he said.

Araghchi said Iran would not give up uranium enrichment as Trump has demanded, and he said he had made that clear to U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff.

“I told him several times zero enrichment is impossible,” he said.

Every country has the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, Araghchi said.

“This is an achievement of our own scientists. It’s a question of national pride and dignity,” he said.

Please read the full interview here.