{"id":32737,"date":"2019-07-15T08:27:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=32737"},"modified":"2019-07-15T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T03:17:07","slug":"iran-ready-for-talks-with-us-if-sanctions-are-lifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=32737","title":{"rendered":"Iran ‘ready for talks’ with US if sanctions are lifted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In reaction to US sanctions, Tehran announced in May that it would scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal. Photo courtesy of Iranian presidency <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

BOJNURD, July 145, (NNN-IRNA)- The Iranian president says his country is always ready for talks, stressing that it won\u2019t give in to bullying powers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur nation fully understands that we won\u2019t give in to bullying powers, but we are always ready for talks,\u201d said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday during a visit to the northeastern North Khorasan Province. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Rouhani stressed that Iran will return to its nuclear commitments if the Europeans do the same as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe changed the strategic patience and started reciprocal actions as of May 8. If there is reduction of commitment, we will do the same, if they violate the deal, we will follow suit and if they return, we will come back as well,\u201d the Iranian president noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was referring to two phases of Iran\u2019s reduction of its nuclear commitments in response to the European lack of action to stand against the US sanctions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iran has always stressed that its actions are reversible in case the Europeans fulfill their commitments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Rouhani criticized the three European signatories to the deal, Germany, France and the UK, also known as the E3, saying they haven\u2019t lived up to their commitments to allow Tehran to benefit from the economic advantages of the deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRussia and China have taken steps to support the JCPOA, but the Europeans haven\u2019t had very good cooperation,\u201d he said, referring to China\u2019s purchase of Iranian oil despite US sanctions and Russia\u2019s help to sell Iran\u2019s oil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The E3 have created a payment mechanism, called Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), to do humanitarian trade with Iran. But, the channel hasn\u2019t finalized any transaction so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iranian president also slammed the US \u201cfailure to fulfill its promises\u201d, saying it has been now left alone so it\u2019s dragging other countries with itself to do the same. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe US claimed for 12 years that Iran was making a nuclear bomb, but then the IAEA said Tehran wasn\u2019t seeking such weapons and closed the Iranian case,\u201d he mentioned. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Rouhani reiterated that the Iranian nation will overcome the sanctions and will move forward to reach its goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BOJNURD, July 145, (NNN-IRNA)- The Iranian president says his country is always ready for talks, stressing that it won\u2019t give in to bullying powers.\u00a0 \u201cOur nation fully understands that we won\u2019t give in to bullying powers, but we are always ready for talks,\u201d said Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday during a visit to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[296],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}