Speaking to reporters upon his arrival in Mashhad on Wednesday, Iran’s top diplomat said the previous rounds of talks with the US came to a halt and did not go forward due to the American side’s excessive demands.
The foreign minister underlined that Iran will not return to the negotiating table as long as the US maintains its policy of making excessive demands and insists on irrational requests.
In remarks on September 23, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei elaborated on the futility of negotiating with the US, stating, “The American side has predetermined and announced the outcomes of negotiations from its own perspective, and it seeks talks whose result would be the cessation of nuclear activities and enrichment within Iran.”
The Leader described engaging in such negotiations as equivalent to accepting the dictates, impositions, and coercion. “Now, he (the US president) says that enrichment must be terminated, but just a few days ago one of their officials stated that Iran should not even possess medium-range or short-range missiles — meaning that Iran’s hands should be so tied that if it was attacked, it could not even respond to [them by targeting] the US bases.”
