Zarif: I negotiated with Saddam Hussein and Trump, and such actions will atone for my sins

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Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, affirmed that "the policy of maximum pressure by the US administration, which is spending the last day of its hateful days headed by Donald Trump, has failed in the face of the Iranian people's resistance."

In a speech to Parliament yesterday, Zarif said: “Today is the last day of the hateful Donald Trump presidency in America, and in light of the Iranian people's resistance, we were able to thwart the US policy of maximum pressure, defending his previous statements about the possibility of negotiating with the United States” with its new administration. As he did before with the Trump administration, according to Iran's Fars news agency.

Zarif said, "I negotiated even with Saddam Hussein, do you think I liked negotiating with Saddam. Do you think I enjoyed sitting before Saddam? No, this is my work and my duty. Do not record this as a sin for me. God willing, such actions will atone for my sins." He added that Washington can return to the 5 + 1 table in the event that sanctions are lifted and the nuclear agreement obligations are implemented.

The Iranian Foreign Minister referred to the American assassination of Commander Qassem Soleimani and the Iranian missile strikes against the "Ain Al-Assad" base in response to this, and said: "However, the basic blow was directed by the Americans themselves through the hatred they brought themselves in the region, and Soleimani's martyrdom was the beginning of the end. The presence of the United States in the region. "

The Iranian parliament granted Zarif two yellow cards for not being convinced of the minister's answers to questions posed by lawmakers on two issues, the first about statements to the German magazine "Spiegel" last year, following the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, in which Zarif said that Tehran was ready to negotiate with Washington and the second issue regarding lawmakers criticizing the ministry's economic performance Iranian Foreign Ministry.

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