SHAFAQNA | By Leila Yazdani : There will be a lot of Iran-related diplomatic actions this week in New York during the United Nations General Assembly, but any prospect of direct interaction between U.S. and Iranian officials is now officially rejected. FM Zarif ’emphatically’ rules out possibility of Rouhani-Trump meeting.
“Iran’s Foreign Minister @JZarif just emphatically told @bgittleson at the UN that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will not meet with President Trump,” Conor Finnegan, ABC News State Dept reporter, has said in a tweet on Monday.
In her tweet, Amanpour wrote: “Iranian FM Zarif tells me today that President Rouhani is willing to meet with President Trump in New York this week “provided that President Trump is ready to do what’s necessary,” exchanging sanctions relief for “permanent monitoring of Iranian nuclear facilities.”
Zarif reportedly said the meeting is possible if the US lifts the sanctions against Iran in exchange for permanent monitoring of the country’s nuclear facilities, according to press tv. But CNN insisting that Iran’s foreign minister in an interview with Christiane Amanpour, has raised the prospect of a new agreement with the United States that would see permanent sanctions relief exchanged for Tehran’s permanent denuclearization.
Moreover, CNN claims that Javad Zarif outlined a proposal for an agreement that would augment the 2015 nuclear deal, from which President Donald Trump withdrew in May 2018.
Despite many efforts and mobilization of all the media and propaganda tools in light of their recent reports insisting that direct interaction between U.S. and Iranian officials will happen, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi elaborated and said “the Islamic Republic has its own diplomatic and political initiative under any circumstances and what FM Zarif said recently are the ones been spoken of previously to prove Iran’s innovativeness and that doors of diplomacy are always open.”
“Iran’s ideas are in the framework of JCPOA and the made agreements and if they accept and be honest, they will become operational,” he said, “Unfortunately, the other side and in particular the Americans are not honest and ready for it and if they were they could exit their own made dead-end.”
He added that all the world countries officials admit that meeting and holding talks between Iran and the Americans after their withdrawal from the JCPOA is now very difficult and impossible unless they lift their imposed sanctions and stop economic terrorism against Iran, mehrnews reported.
But following the Houthi attack on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure and new, even tougher U.S. sanctions against Iran’s central bank, there’s no possibility for a diplomatic exchange, much less a breakthrough, between Washington and Tehran, Zarif told a group of journalists Sunday afternoon at the Iranian U.N. mission, washingtonpost reported.
“I think President Trump knowingly or unknowingly on Friday closed the door to negotiations,” Zarif said.
Despite CNN’s news that was picked up and reported by other media in a few minutes, Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message rebuked the European signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action for the paralysis to honor their commitment.
“E3’s paralysis in fulfilling their obligations w/o US permission has been clear since May 2018,” Zarif wrote in his Twitter account on Tuesday.
Then, he shows solution to this deficiency. Zarif added “mustering will to forge independent path—not parroting absurd US claims & requests INCONSISTENT with JCPOA.”
“No new deal before compliance w/ current one.” Zarif remarks came in reaction to Europeans’ statement calling for a new agreement with Iran. The E3 in a joint statement requested Iran for renegotiate on its nuclear deal, missile issues and regional security.