"We arranged with Turkey to act as a mediator and I flew to Ankara to meet with them.
"Iran no longer trusts Turkey as an effective mediator and does not engage in strategic dialogues with Turkey on the nuclear issue or other issues such as Iraq, Syria and Yemen," he said.
In getting it, the mediator is then able to pass something of the pain of each side to the other.
"The United States is not playing the classic role as mediator, nor is it a neutral figure," Aronson said in an interview.
Isn't it a waste that two nations who only 30 years ago were like brothers go after each other's throats like this?" A few steps up the street from the carpet shop, Hossein, who organises Basij militia activities at a mosque in the area, argued that Iran is in no need of a mediator.
Imran Khan, the leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, has warned against going to war, saying Pakistan should offer its services as a mediator instead.
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Germany's political weight has grown enormously with the euro crisis and the chancellor and the foreign minister played a mediator role in the Ukraine crisis.
The obstacles to that are Oman, a long-standing mediator between the US and Iran, and Qatar, which also keeps carefully on the right side of Tehran.
The reformist correspondent pointed out a breaking news item from the Iranian Labor News Agency, reporting that Zarif has confirmed that the "guesses" made by the media have been largely correct and that Qaboos had traveled to Tehran in the role of a mediator carrying communications.
Egypt has been a mediator in past Israel-Palestinian conflicts and has taken the lead in trying to broker a truce between Israel and its Islamist foe Hamas which dominates the Gaza Strip.
