NEW YORK (Dispatches) -- Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations said Sunday the Islamic Republic might consider holding negotiations only if the objective is to ease concerns about the “potential militarization” of its nuclear program. “If the objective of negotiations is to address concerns regarding any potential militarization of Iran’s nuclear program, such discussions may be subject to consideration,” the mission said in a statement on X on Sunday. “Should the aim be the dismantlement of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program to claim that what Obama failed to achieve has now been accomplished, such negotiations will never take place,” it added.