It is ready to negotiate with the US, but in the context of a “maximum pressure” political exercise in Tehran, which has been restored by US President Donald Trump, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragi said today.
“The lifting of sanctions presupposes negotiations, but not in the context of a ‘maximum pressure’ policy, because in this case it would not be a negotiation but more a form of capitulation,” Araki said in a statement.
Yesterday, the supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the experience has proven that talks with the US “are not smart, wise or honest”. “Trading with America is neither smart, nor wise, nor honest. It will not solve any of our problems. The reason? Experience! “Said Khamenei.
Trump said on Wednesday that he would like to have a nuclear peace agreement with Tehran, whose observance could be ascertained by stressing that the Islamic Republic “cannot have nuclear weapons”,
In 2018, during his previous term in the US Presidency, Trump withdrew the US from the 2015 deal on Tehran’s nuclear program, which was concluded with the Great Powers, and re -imposed sanctions that knelt down the country’s economy. .
Hard measures led Tehran to violate the nuclear restrictions of the agreement.
The US US Treasury Treasury announced on Thursday new US financial sanctions, targeting sales of Iranian crude oil in China.
“Iran does not want to negotiate with a country that signs at the same time new sanctions,” the head of Iranian diplomacy said today.
Source: RES-EIA
