Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced today, Tuesday, that his country may enter into negotiations with the United States on a new nuclear deal if the US administration returns to the current agreement from which it withdrew.
“The maximum pressure policy pursued by Washington against Iran has failed 100%, as it was intended to draw Iran to the negotiating table while it is in a state of weakness,” Rouhani said in a press conference broadcast on Iranian television.
The Iranian president added, “Washington was aiming to force us into negotiations by strengthening the dollar and weakening the Iranian riyal, but it realized that this was not possible … America wanted to create a crisis in Iran and for Iranians to protest in the streets, but its policy suffered a crushing defeat.”
He stressed: “If Trump administration wants an agreement with us, then they must, and in this way, return to the agreement (previously concluded), and an agreement cannot be signed through pressure.”
On May 8, 2018, the US President announced his country’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, which he describes as the largest international supporter of terrorism, accusing it of seeking to obtain nuclear weapons.
Trump called on Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, the rest of the participants in the agreement, to withdraw from it and start working on a new deal, while these countries insist on the need to preserve the current agreement.
Iran announced, in response to the US assassination of the commander of the “Quds Force” of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Major General Qassem Soleimani, on January 3, 2020, to stop adhering to the agreement on its nuclear program.
Source : RT
