US President Donald Trump and his Center East envoy each claimed the talks may occur subsequent week, following the Iranian president’s feedback on being open to dialogue.
Iran says it has not requested talks with the US over its nuclear programme, as claimed by US President Donald Trump.
“No request for a gathering has been made on our aspect to the American aspect,” Iranian Overseas Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei mentioned on Tuesday in feedback carried by the nation’s Tasnim information company.
The clarification got here a day after Trump, during a dinner within the White Home with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mentioned Iran was actively looking for negotiations on a brand new nuclear deal following the 12-day battle with Israel final month, which the US additionally joined.
“We’ve scheduled Iran talks. They need to discuss,” Trump advised reporters. “They need to work one thing out. They’re very completely different now than they had been two weeks in the past.”
Trump’s Center East envoy, Steve Witkoff – additionally current through the dinner – had even mentioned the assembly may happen within the subsequent week or so.
Iran’s Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote in an opinion piece printed within the Monetary Occasions newspaper on Tuesday that Tehran stays focused on diplomacy however “now we have good purpose to have doubts about additional dialogue”.
Sanctions aid
On June 13, Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign on Iran that focused navy and nuclear websites in addition to residential areas, killing senior navy commanders and nuclear scientists. Iranian authorities say the Israeli strikes killed no less than 1,060 individuals. Israel says retaliatory drone and missile hearth by Iran killed no less than 28 individuals.
The US joined the battle, bombing Iranian nuclear websites at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, simply days earlier than a deliberate assembly between Tehran and Washington, DC on reviving the nuclear talks. Trump then went on to announce a ceasefire between Israel and Iran.
The negotiations, aimed toward limiting Iran’s nuclear programme in trade for sanctions aid, would exchange the 2015 Joint Complete Plan of Motion (JCPOA) – a deal signed with the US, China, Russia, France, Germany, the UK and the European Union – which Trump ditched throughout his first time period in workplace.
Floating the prospect of extra talks on Monday, Trump additionally dangled the prospect of lifting punitive US sanctions on Iran, imposed after the US withdrawal from JCPOA, with additional restrictions piled on this yr.
This month, the US issued a brand new wave of sanctions in opposition to Iranian oil exports, the primary penalties in opposition to Tehran’s power sector for the reason that US-backed ceasefire ended the battle between Israel and Iran.
“I’d love to have the ability to, on the proper time, take these sanctions off,” mentioned Trump.
In direction of the top of final month, Trump mentioned he was engaged on “the potential elimination of sanctions”, however dropped his efforts after Iran’s Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed “victory” within the Iran-Israel battle.
Tehran’s denial concerning talks with the US got here after Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian advised US journalist Tucker Carlson that Iran had “no problem” resuming talks as long as belief might be rebuilt between the 2 sides.
The interview, aired on Monday, provoked a backlash in Iran, with the critics accusing Pezeshkian of being “too gentle” within the wake of final month’s assaults on the nation.
“Have you ever forgotten that these similar Individuals, along with the Zionists, used the negotiations to purchase time and put together for the assault?” mentioned an editorial within the hardline Kayhan newspaper.
The conservative Javan every day additionally took purpose at Pezeshkian, saying his remarks appeared “a little bit too gentle”.
In distinction, the reformist Ham Mihan newspaper praised Pezeshkian’s “optimistic method”.