Iran's Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance has said that the outcome of the Vienna talks will not play a role in Iran's cultural interactions with the region.

Iran's culture minister stated: "The West wants to show a wrong image of Iran and we try to portray the true one with the media, cultural and artistic productions."
Asked what effect the Russia-Ukraine war would have on the Vienna talks, Esmaili said: "Our problem with the West is that they do not pursue a single policy, they have nuclear weapons themselves and they destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the same time they put the pressure on Iran to put aside its peaceful nuclear technology."
The minister emphasized that "We are on the path of honorable negotiations and the conflicts around the global will not affect the negotiations."