Iran’s overseas minister made the announcement after assembly his Russian counterpart.
Iran is not going to have interaction in direct talks with the USA on his nation’s nuclear programme amid US President Donald Trump’s coverage of “most stress” in opposition to it, International Minister Abbas Araghchi has mentioned.
His remarks got here a day after the US imposed a fresh round of sanctions concentrating on Iran’s oil business, the Iran’s essential supply of earnings.
“Iran’s place relating to nuclear talks is evident and we is not going to negotiate beneath stress and sanctions,” Aragchi mentioned throughout a televised joint press convention together with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Tehran on Tuesday.
“There isn’t any chance of direct negotiations with the US so long as most stress is being utilized on this manner.”
Following his return to the White Home final month, Trump has restored his “most stress” marketing campaign on Iran that features efforts to drive the nation’s oil exports to zero, reimposing a tricky coverage on Iran that was practiced all through his first time period.
Earlier this month, Iran’s high authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei additionally mentioned that talks with the US had been “not sensible, smart, or honourable”.
Nevertheless, he stopped wanting renewing a ban on direct talks with Washington decreed in the course of the first Trump administration.
In 2018, throughout his first time period, Trump withdrew the US from Iran’s landmark 2015 nuclear cope with six world powers that had imposed curbs on Iran’s nuclear programme in return for sanctions reduction.
Iran has since breached a number of the deal’s limitations and efforts to revive the accord failed beneath 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 12 months.
Araghchi mentioned he had briefed Lavrov concerning the newest discussions.
“On the nuclear problem, we are going to transfer ahead with the cooperation and coordination of our associates in Russia and China,” he added.
The Russian overseas minister mentioned 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 dealing with 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 removing of President Bashar al-Assad, a longtime ally.
Araghchi mentioned 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 desire of the individuals,” he mentioned.
Lavrov, for his half, mentioned “We are going to 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, mentioned 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 deal with the need of increasing the ties economically and politically in addition to some measures to be taken with sanctions,” he mentioned.
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 Normal 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 various,” Lavrov mentioned.
