TEHRAN, Oct 23 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister, yesterday said, his country received a U.S. message expressing American hastiness to reach the nuclear deal with Iran.
“Three days ago, we received a message from the U.S., we told them, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s accusations against Iran’s nuclear programme should be resolved,” before any agreement, said Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
Asked about U.S. officials’ comments about the nuclear negotiations being off the U.S. agenda, he said, “Americans are contradictory in their words and behaviour, as they are in a hurry to reach the agreement in their (recent) message.”
While the U.S. continues to exchange messages with Iran, they “are seeking to exert political and psychological pressure (on Iran) and want to gain concessions in the negotiations,” he said.
“We do not give any concessions to the American side, and we move within the framework of logic and the framework of an agreement that respects the red lines of the Islamic Republic of Iran, but at the same time, we never leave the negotiating table,” he stressed.
Iran signed the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with world powers in July, 2015, agreeing to curb its nuclear programme, in return for removing sanctions on the country. However, Washington quit the agreement and reimposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran, prompting the latter to drop some of its commitments under the pact.– NNN-IRNA
