During the meeting, he noted that the United States by its decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan (JCPOA) showed that they should not be trusted in negotiations.

“The US’s most important tool against independent nations such as Iran and North Korea is economic sanctions,” Mehr quoted Arakchi.

Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on the international community to increase pressure on Tehran to end its "destabilizing behavior."

An orientalist, Gumer Isaev, in an interview with NSN, explained Tehran’s decision to suspend the implementation of a number of obligations under a nuclear deal by attempting a reaction under pressure from the United States.