Tehran talks about indirect negotiations with Washington and calls on European ambassadors

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqji said that Tehran could be open to indirect nuclear negotiations with the United States. Araqji told the daily government newspaper “Iran” in statements published today, “in the world of politics, it is common for countries that do not want to talk directly with each other to do so indirectly.” Araqji was answering a question about the possibility of nuclear negotiations with the United States.

“Yes, and this is not a strange and strange path, and this has happened repeatedly in history, where the countries that were not ready to negotiate directly have indirectly negotiated, and therefore indirect negotiation is possible.” The Iranian Foreign Minister affirmed that the US administration should know that negotiations with it can only take place in equal, repeating Tehran’s position on not negotiating with it in the policy of exercising the maximum pressure on Iran.

He stated that the three European countries channel is “existing” and “we have cooperation with Mr. Rafael Grossi and the International Atomic Energy Agency and there is a new idea to solve issues and we are currently discussing it” in an indirect reference to issues pending between Tehran and the agency.

The Iranian guide, Ali Khamenei, accused, yesterday, Wednesday, US President Donald Trump, that he was seeking to deceive world public opinion of declaring his willingness to negotiate with Iran and invite him to him, adding that this call means “we are ready to negotiate and peace, but Iran is not ready. But why Iran refuses to negotiate? Go back to yourselves.” “We have been negotiating for years, and this person (Trump) has tore the concluded agreement that we negotiated.”

Summoning European ambassadors

Today, Thursday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of France, Britain and Germany to Tehran for handing them a strong protest note, as it described as “exploiting” the Security Council and holding a closed meeting on the Iranian nuclear file on Wednesday. The Iranian Foreign Ministry added, in its statement, that the Director General of International Peace and Security, Muhammad Hosni Ahmadinejad Berkuhi, summoned the three ambassadors, and met with them to protest against the “irresponsible and inclusive orientation” of their three countries at the Security Council meeting, noting that the Iranian official informed the ambassadors that “Iran’s peaceful nuclear program is fully identical to Iran’s rights and duties in accordance with the Treaty of the Prohibition of the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Conclusion of the attachments” For the treaty.

On Wednesday, the UN Security Council held a closed meeting on increasing Iran’s enriched uranium reserves amid Western accusations during the meeting of Tehran and a threat to the possibility of activating the conflict resolution mechanism stipulated in the nuclear agreement, knowing that activating the conflict resolution mechanism re -imposing international sanctions and the six international resolutions on Iran, which was canceled under the nuclear agreement.

Berkuhi stressed that Iranian nuclear activities “do not constitute any conflict with the nuclear agreement as a document that includes Iranian voluntary measures to build confidence in exchange for lifting unjust and illegal sanctions on Iran,” noting that his country “has the right according to the nuclear agreement to stop the implementation of its pledges in part or completely if the agreement is violated by the other parties. The Iranian official of the three European ambassadors confirmed that holding a closed meeting of the Security Council on the Iran program Al -Nawawi “lacks any technical and human rights justification, which is an inflammatory and political behavior on the basis of the unilateral tension trends on the part of America,” accusing France, Britain and Germany of “dependency” of the American request to hold the meeting, considering that this constitutes “in line with Washington” in its exit from the nuclear agreement in 2018.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry described the holding of the international meeting in the Security Council a few days after the Council of the International Atomic Energy Agency Governors meeting as “a saboteur interference that removes credibility in the technical mission of the agency,” promising that this behavior “harms the familiar path of cooperation between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.” The discussion of the Iranian nuclear file in the corridors of the Council of the International Atomic Energy Agency in its capacity as its highest authority and the UN Security Council come to the impact of an Israeli and American escalation against Iran, the increasing possibility of Israel to strike these facilities and the hint of US President Donald Trump with the military option.