Iran’s overseas minister made the announcement after assembly his Russian counterpart.
Iran won’t have interaction in direct talks with the US on his nation’s nuclear programme amid US President Donald Trump’s coverage of “most strain” in opposition to it, Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi has stated.
His remarks got here a day after the US imposed a contemporary spherical of sanctions concentrating on Iran’s oil business, the Iran’s primary supply of earnings.
“Iran’s place concerning nuclear talks is obvious and we won’t negotiate below strain and sanctions,” Aragchi stated throughout a televised joint press convention together with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Tehran on Tuesday.
“There is no such thing as a risk of direct negotiations with the US so long as most strain is being utilized on this manner.”
Following his return to the White Home final month, Trump has restored his “most strain” marketing campaign on Iran that features efforts to drive the nation’s oil exports to zero, reimposing a troublesome coverage on Iran that was practiced all through his first time period.
Earlier this month, Iran’s prime authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei additionally stated that talks with the US had been “not good, sensible, or honourable”.
Nevertheless, he stopped wanting renewing a ban on direct talks with Washington decreed throughout the first Trump administration.
In 2018, throughout his first time period, Trump withdrew the US from Iran’s landmark 2015 nuclear take care of six world powers that had imposed curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme in return for sanctions aid.
Iran has since breached a number of the deal’s limitations and efforts to revive the accord failed below the administration of former US President Joe Biden.
On Monday, Iran held a brand new spherical of talks with Germany, France and Britain about its nuclear programme after reviving engagement with the trio, often known as the E3, late final yr.
Araghchi stated he had briefed Lavrov concerning the newest discussions.
“On the nuclear difficulty, we are going to transfer ahead with the cooperation and coordination of our associates in Russia and China,” he added.
The Russian overseas minister stated he was positive that diplomatic measures had been nonetheless on the desk when it got here to resolving points round Iran’s nuclear programme, Iranian state media reported.
With Russia too going through sanctions over its struggle in Ukraine, Moscow and Tehran have stepped up their relations lately. Each international locations had invested in Syria and suffered a setback in December with the elimination of President Bashar al-Assad, a longtime ally.
Araghchi stated Iran and Russia’s positions on Syria stay “very shut”.
“Iran needs peace, stability, preservation of territorial integrity and unity, and the progress of Syria primarily based on the need of the individuals,” he stated.
Lavrov, for his half, stated “We’ll do our utmost to make sure that the state of affairs calms down and doesn’t pose a risk both to the Syrian individuals… or to the individuals of neighbouring states.”
Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi, stated that the overseas ministers had been attempting to painting “an image of a coordinated, collaborated and constant place” on regional and bilateral points.
“Additionally there was a give attention to the need of increasing the ties economically and politically in addition to some measures to be taken with sanctions,” he stated.
Lavrov’s go to to Iran additionally comes simply days after US and Russian officers held direct talks for the primary time for the reason that begin of the struggle in Ukraine.
The Russian overseas minister hailed Trump’s “balanced” place on the struggle in Ukraine after Washington voted with Moscow on United Nations resolutions to keep away from condemning the Russian invasion on Monday.
“Yesterday’s occasion on the UN Common Meeting and the Safety Council confirmed one essential factor: the understanding that the method geared toward eliminating the basis causes of the disaster has no different,” Lavrov stated.
