Tehran: “arranged in indirect negotiations with USA on nuclear power” | EUROtoday

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Iran has made it identified that it was prepared to oblique negotiations with the United States on the nuclear query. “Our policy remains to avoid direct negotiations in conditions of maximum pressure and military threats, but indirect negotiations, as they have existed in the past, can continue,” mentioned Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to the official Irna company. The minister made it identified to have responded to the letter of President Donald Trump and that he despatched it to the Sultanate of Oman, which acts as an middleman between Iran and the United States, as a result of lack of diplomatic relations.

Last week, Araqchi had mentioned that Iran’s refusal to barter straight with the United States authorities was a tactic, not a method. He had mentioned that the present negotiations between Iran and the three European international locations of France, Germany and Great Britain have been primarily oblique interviews with the United States. “In circumstances in which there is ‘maximum pressure’, nobody healthy would enter direct negotiations,” he mentioned.

“The format of negotiations is always relevant in diplomatic relationships … For now, our tactics and our method are to have indirect negotiations”. On February 4, Trump signed a presidential memorandum to revive the “maximum pressure” on the Islamic Republic, regardless of his claims to be prepared to commit himself to diplomatically with Tehran.

According to what reported by the Tehran Times, Kamal Kharrazi, councilor of the Iranian supreme information Ali Khamenei and head of the Think Tank Strategic Council on Foreign Relations and Foreign Minister from 1997 to 2005, mentioned that “Iran has not closed all the doors, is open for indirect talks with the United States to evaluate the other part, illustrate their conditions and decide as a result”.

Kharazzi pressured right this moment that “American strategy is an invitation to dialogue under the threat of strengthening economic sanctions and military threats with the aim of pushing Iran to give in to a dialogue in which neither its principles are clear nor (Iran) can trust the promises and signatures of the opposite part based on past experiences”.