TEHRAN, Iran, June 4 (NNN-TASNIM) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry said, the U.S. call for talks with Iran is merely “wordplay.”
“Washington’s latest expression of readiness for talks with Tehran, without any preconditions is wordplay, which is not to be taken as a yardstick for action,” Abbas Mousavi, the ministry’s spokesman, was quoted as saying.
“The yardstick for U.S. intention for negotiations is a change in general approach and actual behaviour towards the Iranian nation,” Mousavi added, in response to U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo’s remarks, on talks with Iran.
Pompeo’s emphasis on the maintenance of “maximum pressure” on Iran, indicates that Washington is adopting the same “wrong approach” of the past, the Iranian spokesman noted.
A day earlier, Pompeo said, in Switzerland, that, the United States is “prepared to engage in a conversation with Iran with no preconditions.”
But Washington would continue working to rein in Iran’s “malign activity,” he added.– NNN-TASNIM
