US President Donald Trump has refused to lift sanctions on Iran as a condition to negotiate with it to reach a settlement of its nuclear file.
Trump said in a tweet on Twitter yesterday evening that the Iranian foreign minister says that his country wants to negotiate with the United States, but that it wants to lift the sanctions.
Trump ended his tweet by saying "No, thanks." The US president has become calling for a new agreement with Iran, instead of the 2015 agreement, which Washington withdrew unilaterally on the pretext that it was a bad agreement that enabled the Iranians with the funds they used in their weapons programs, but Tehran responded by rejecting it.
In his new tweet about Iran, Trump was commenting on statements by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in which he expressed Iran's willingness to continue negotiating with the United States even after the killing of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, if Washington changed course and lifted sanctions.
In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Zarif stated that the response to Soleimani's assassination will be through the peoples of the region who have expressed their disgust at the American behavior, according to him.
He stressed that the killing of Soleimani is the beginning of the end of the American presence in the region, and he said that his country does not rush to do this.
And Zarif warned of the dangers of escalation in the nuclear dispute, and warned of what he called the subjugation of the European Union to the United States, and described it as a disaster.
And recently Iran threatened to withdraw from the nuclear proliferation treaty if France, Germany and Britain - the signatories to the nuclear agreement - decide to refer the file to the UN Security Council, to re-impose international sanctions on Tehran on the pretext of reducing its obligations under the 2015 agreement.