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Iran FM says talks with ‘insincere’ US impossible due to its ‘erratic’ policies

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic cannot trust the US to sit with it again in any possible negotiations as Washington has been pursuing erratic policies in dealing with Tehran.


The Americans have never acted with sincerity, and Trump's move and remarks were merely a publicity stunt. The main reason behind this is that Trump does not care about either the Iranian people or international obligations, he told reporters.


The top Iranian diplomat said the Americans need to be answerable to the Iranian people in numerous cases, adding that given the deep distrust the US has caused over the past decades, the Iranians can hardly find a reason to talk to them.


The US president said on July 30 that he is ready to meet his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, any time they want to.

It's good for the country, good for them, good for us and good for the world. No preconditions. If they want to meet, I'll meet, Trump said.



Zarif said in his Wednesday remarks that the world was taking Iran's side in the face of US acts.

In the past, countries implemented US bans that were endorsed by several UN Security Council resolutions, but now the world has been standing up to the US sanctions, Zarif said, citing an update of the Blocking Statute by the EU to protect the bloc's companies doing legitimate business with Iran from the impact of US extraterritorial sanctions.

An international consensus against the US move has been shaped, he noted.

The world today is not willing to implement the US sanctions and several countries, including key ones, are striving to counter the sanctions and our own economic sector will be active in this regard too, he added.

Zarif's remarks echoed those by President Hassan Rouhani who said on Monday that the US administration was no more able to prove its trustworthiness for any negotiations after its withdrawal from the JCPOA and a number of other international treaties.



Source: Press TV
