Tehran, Aug. 18 -- Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday accused Israel of actively sabotaging diplomacy, calling the country "the biggest opponent and obstacle" to the implementation of a ceasefire understanding with the US, Iranian news agency ISNA reported.

"The biggest opponent and obstacle to the implementation of the memorandum of understanding was and is the Zionist regime [Israel]," Araghchi said.

"They did their best to prevent such an understanding from happening, they did their best to make this understanding fail, and they did their best to prevent it from being implemented, and they are still continuing this effort," he added.

Araghchi claimed that several ambassadors had told him that almost all clauses of th...