Dubai (Reuters)-Iran’s Parliament said the country should not resume nuclear negotiations with the United States until previous conditions are met in a statement released on Wednesday by Iranian state media.
“When the US uses negotiations as a tool to deceive Iran and cover up a sudden military attack by the Zionist regime (Israel), negotiations cannot be conducted as before. Prior conditions must be established and no new negotiation can occur until they are fully fulfilled,” the statement said.
The declaration did not define the previous conditions, but Iran’s Foreign Minister Araqchi Abbas had previously said that there should be guarantees that there would be no new attacks against Tehran.
Israel and the US launched attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities last month, saying they were part of a program focused on the development of nuclear weapons. Tehran says his nuclear program is purely for civil purposes.
Tehran and Washington conducted five rounds of Oman -mediated indirect negotiations before the 12 -day Air War, with US demands that Tehran abandon his domestic uranium enrichment program reaching a dead end.
Last week, Araqchi reiterated Tehran’s position that he would not agree with a nuclear agreement that prevented him from enriching uranium and would refuse to discuss extra-nuclear topics, such as his ballistic missile program.
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US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he was not in a hurry to negotiate with Iran, as his nuclear facilities were “obliterated,” but the US, coordinating three European countries, agreed to define the end of August as the deadline for an agreement.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Tuesday that Paris, London, and Berlin would call the United Nations’s sanctions, which would rejoin international sanctions to Iran, by the end of August, if there was no concrete progress in relation to an agreement.
Trump says Iran wants to negotiate, but he has no hurry
WASHINGTON (Reuters)-US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran wants to negotiate with the US, but he is in no hurry to talk.
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“They really want to negotiate. We are not in a hurry,” Trump told reporters in the White House during a meeting with the Barein leader.
(Report of the Newsroom in Dubai and Trevor Hunnicutt and Katharine Jackson)
