Iran: Netanyahu 'hijacked' US foreign policy

Iran's mission to the United Nations in New York said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "an internationally wanted war criminal, has hijacked US foreign policy, dragging the United States into yet another costly war."

"America has, once more, recklessly chosen to sacrifice its own security merely to safeguard Netanyahu," the mission said in a post on X. 

"The Israeli regime and the United States destroyed diplomacy. The so-called offer of diplomacy was nothing more than a deceitful ploy," the statement continued. 

It follows a statement from a White House spokesperson that US President Donald Trump is open to negotiations with Iran again. 

"Undoubtedly, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Israeli regime, and the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] General Director will bear full responsibility for the death of innocent civilians in Iran, especially women and children, and for the destruction of vital civilian infrastructure," Iran's UN mission said.