Iran ‘favours’ talks despite Trump snub
President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said that Iran favours talks with the US if it lifts sanctions against the Islamic republic, despite his top diplomat turning down a meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Rouhani said “peace with Iran is the mother of all peace” and “war with Iran is the mother of all wars” as he defended a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
Tensions between Iran and the US have been rising since Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the nuclear deal in May 2018 and began imposing sanctions on it as part of a “maximum pressure” campaign.
In response, the US ambassador on disarmament Robert Wood said: “Iran simply needs to make up its mind to decide what it wants to do”.
However Rouhani described as “weird” the US approach of calling for negotiations and then slapping sanctions on Zarif.
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