Tehran responds to Trump’s challenge for new negotiations, but the condition is to change US policy towards Iran.
On Monday, Iran expressed willingness to conduct indirect negotiations with the US on a nuclear agreement to which US President Donald Trump called on. He excluded direct negotiations for the current US approach to Iran. TASR writes about this based on AFP report.
During his first term of office in the Presidential Office in 2018, Trump resigned from the agreement between Iran and the superpowers concluded in 2015. According to the agreement, the sanctions imposed on Iran were alleviated in exchange for limiting his nuclear activities. In response to this, Tehran has ceased to comply with the conditions of the agreement and progressed significantly in nuclear development, writes Reuters.
This month, the US President sent a letter to Tehran. In it, Iran urged it to decide whether to start new negotiations or the country would bear stricter sanctions under Trump’s “maximum pressure policy”.
Trump must change policy
“The journey for indirect negotiations is open,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakčí explained on Monday. He refused direct talks, saying that he must first “change the approach of the other party to the Islamic Republic.” According to Arakči, the US is threatening Iran and Trump has to change its policy.
Both countries have interrupted diplomatic relations during the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979. Their communication has since been mediated by the Swiss Embassy in Tehran. Indirect interviews also mediated Oman within the so -called. Mascry process. However, Arakčí informed in October that negotiations under this initiative were suspended.
