Iran’s foreign minister said Thursday that his country is “not asking for a ceasefire” from the United States and Israel, “and we don’t see any reason why we should negotiate” after nearly a week of war.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also said in an exclusive interview with NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas that Iran is “confident” that it can confront the U.S. military if President Donald Trump decides to invade the nation with ground troops.

“And that would be a big disaster for them,” Araghchi told NBC Nightly News.

He also said that after six days of war against Iran, “It is clear that the U.S. has failed to achieve its main goal, which was clean, rapid victory.”

“They failed to achieve that, and now they are trying to justify why they did attack us. And they have, you know, presented so many different reasons, but none of them worked,” Araghchi said. “And now they are talking about, you know, plan B. And I, I believe that, you know, plan B would be even a bigger failure.”

Araghchi’s comments indicate Iran is in for a longer war with the U.S. after Trump has said he foresees it lasting four to five weeks. Trump has criticized his Democratic predecessors for engaging in protracted conflicts in the Middle East.

The war “is not our war,” Araghchi said. “This is a war of choice by the United States.”

“We are not asking for a ceasefire, and we don’t see any reason why we should negotiate,” he said.

“Negotiate with the U.S. when we negotiated with them twice, and every time they attacked us in the middle of negotiations?” he asked.

“So there is no request for a ceasefire by us, and there is no request for the negotiation with the U.S. from us.”

Araghchi, when asked why Iran has launched attacks against nearly a dozen neighboring Arab countries during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, said, “We have not attacked our neighbors. We have not attacked Muslim countries.”

“We have attacked Americans targets and American bases, American installations, which are unfortunately located in the soils of our neighbors,” he said. “So we have made it clear for them, I have been in touch with their foreign ministers, and I have explained that ‘we are not targeting you. We have no problem with you. We have only, are only targeting the American installations.'”

Europe spent much of 2025 scrambling to bolster its defenses against Russia — but just a week into the new year, it’s being forced to rethink security once again amid President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland.

Trump has been ramping up calls for Greenland — a semi-autonomous Danish territory — to be brought under Washington’s control. This week, the White House said Trump was considering various options to make it happen, including military action.

Greenland, the world’s largest island, is rich in untapped mineral resources. Although geographically positioned on the North American continent, it is politically part of Europe.

Acquiring the island would be no mean feat. Aside from political obstacles both at home and abroad, any attempt to take the territory by force would pit the U.S. against its NATO allies.

In an interview with CNN earlier this week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller suggested no European country would be prepared to put up a fight to protect Greenland. Although not explicitly ruling out the possibility of U.S. military action in Greenland, he argued that “there’s no need to even think or talk about this in the context of a military operation [because] nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” pointing to the island’s small population.

For its part, Denmark and Greenland are taking of U.S. military action seriously. In a statement on Tuesday evening, Danish Defense Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said Denmark would spend 88 billion Danish kroner ($13.8 billion) rearming Greenland, given “the serious security situation we find ourselves in.”

Despite that apparent willingness from Denmark to defend Greenland, analysts told CNBC they do not believe European forces would ever open fire on American troops.

Edward R. Arnold, a senior research fellow at British defense think tank Royal United Services Institute, told CNBC in a call on Tuesday that the White House does have the military power to move in on Greenland and, if it wanted to, could do so “really quite quickly.”

But Washington would not have to launch an operation like the one seen in Venezuela over the weekend, according to Arnold, because “it would be completely unopposed.”

“What European military commander is going to open force on a U.S. troop transport coming into Greenland?” he said. “That would start an inter-NATO war, potentially. And the U.S. knows that.”

The United States has, by far, the greatest military strength of any NATO member. In 2024, NATO estimated that the U.S. had 1.3 million military personnel, compared to the rest of the alliance’s collective 2.1 million personnel. The next biggest military staff belonged to Turkey, which had an estimated…