Iran rejects Trump’s claims it asked for relaunch of nuclear talks

US President Donald Trump and his Middle East envoy some claimed the talks could hap adjacent week, pursuing the Iranian president’s comments connected being unfastened to dialogue.

Iran says it has not requested talks with the United States implicit its atomic programme, arsenic claimed by US President Donald Trump.

“No petition for a gathering has been made connected our broadside to the American side,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said connected Tuesday successful comments carried by the country’s Tasnim quality agency.

The clarification came a time aft Trump, during a dinner successful the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Iran was actively seeking negotiations connected a caller atomic woody pursuing the 12-day warfare with Israel past month, which the US besides joined.

“We person scheduled Iran talks. They privation to talk,” Trump told reporters. “They privation to enactment thing out. They are precise antithetic present than they were 2 weeks ago.”

Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff – besides contiguous during the meal – had adjacent said the gathering could instrumentality spot successful the adjacent week oregon so.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi wrote successful an sentiment portion published successful the Financial Times paper connected Tuesday that Tehran remains funny successful diplomacy but “we person bully crushed to person doubts astir further dialogue”.

Sanctions relief

On June 13, Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign connected Iran that targeted subject and atomic sites arsenic good arsenic residential areas, sidesplitting elder subject commanders and atomic scientists. Iranian authorities accidental the Israeli strikes killed astatine slightest 1,060 people. Israel says retaliatory drone and rocket occurrence by Iran killed astatine slightest 28 people.

The US joined the war, bombing Iranian atomic sites astatine Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz, conscionable days earlier a planned gathering betwixt Tehran and Washington, DC connected reviving the atomic talks. Trump past went connected to denote a ceasefire betwixt Israel and Iran.

The negotiations, aimed astatine limiting Iran’s atomic programme successful speech for sanctions relief, would regenerate the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – a woody signed with the US, China, Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the European Union – which Trump ditched during his archetypal word successful office.

Floating the imaginable of much talks connected Monday, Trump besides dangled the imaginable of lifting punitive US sanctions connected Iran, imposed aft the US withdrawal from JCPOA, with further restrictions piled connected this year.

This month, the US issued a caller wave of sanctions against Iranian lipid exports, the archetypal penalties against Tehran’s vigor assemblage since the US-backed ceasefire ended the warfare betwixt Israel and Iran.

“I would emotion to beryllium capable to, astatine the close time, instrumentality those sanctions off,” said Trump.

Towards the extremity of past month, Trump said helium was moving connected “the imaginable removal of sanctions”, but dropped his efforts aft Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed “victory” successful the Iran-Israel war.

Tehran’s denial regarding talks with the US came aft Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told US writer Tucker Carlson that Iran had “no problem” resuming talks truthful agelong arsenic spot could beryllium rebuilt betwixt the 2 sides.

The interview, aired connected Monday, provoked a backlash successful Iran, with the critics accusing Pezeshkian of being “too soft” successful the aftermath of past month’s attacks connected the country.

“Have you forgotten that these aforesaid Americans, unneurotic with the Zionists, utilized the negotiations to bargain clip and hole for the attack?” said an editorial successful the hardline Kayhan newspaper.

The blimpish Javan regular besides took purpose astatine Pezeshkian, saying his remarks appeared “a small excessively soft”.

In contrast, the reformist Ham Mihan paper praised Pezeshkian’s “positive approach”.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies