Tuesday, 11 May 2021 (YJC)_ A senior official of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the country has no good experience in negotiating with the West.
During a press conference on Sunday about the latest status of Iran’s nuclear talks A senior official of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered a number of questions and said that we have no good experience in negotiating with the West.
"It is now up to the US to make its tough decision and give up its failed maximum pressure policy," he said while emphasizing on the fact that Iran has proved its seriousness and goodwill, and added “Iran is ready to resume the full implementation of its obligations in the JCPOA if the negotiations meet our demands.”
He went on to say that “Negotiations will continue as long as the other side is serious and wants a solution.”
Moreover, he highlighted the fact that they would not accept any intermediate steps or interim, preliminary or step-by-step agreements, and added “The issue of an interim agreement has long been off the agenda, and we are only negotiating the full implementation of the commitments.”
He, then said there are still some unresolved issues and added “We have now gone through more or less a difficult stage of negotiating concepts, and we have reached an equally difficult stage.”
“All the sanctions that Trump has imposed have been to destroy the JCPOA in the hope of a better deal. Therefore, all of them are evaluated in the direction of the JCPOA and are somehow related to it,” the senior official added.
Finally, he addressed the other side of the negotiations and said “Our advice to the other side is that instead of thinking about any future negotiations, they should try to strengthen the outcome of the current negotiations.”