Iran on Tuesday condemned statements by US President Joe Biden vowing to continue pressure on it, saying the United States was repeating its mistake in Ukraine by seeking to form a regional alliance against it in the Middle East, and contradicting its stated desire to revive the nuclear deal.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said today that Washington is making the same mistake in the Middle East and the Gulf that it made in Ukraine, by expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) despite the warnings.

Qalibaf added that Iran will not hesitate to defend the interests of the region to confront any conspiracies aimed at destabilizing it, calling on the countries of the region to beware of any US-Israeli plans aimed at destabilizing security and stability.

Simultaneously, the Iranian Foreign Ministry responded today to the article published by the US President in the Washington Post prior to his visit to the Middle East, which will include Israel, the Palestinian territories and Saudi Arabia, in which he said that his administration will continue to increase diplomatic and economic pressure until Iran returns to compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Biden's assertion of continuing economic and diplomatic pressure on Iran contradicts Washington's declaration of its desire to revive the nuclear deal.

Kanaani added that Biden's positions in the article are a continuation of the course of the maximum pressure policy pursued by his predecessor, Donald Trump, considering that what he called the failed policy pursued by Washington with Tehran contradicts Biden's claims in the article to find a stable and secure Middle East.

The Iranian official stressed that regional security is achieved through Washington ending the policy of division between the countries of the region, stopping the pumping of weapons to them, respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of countries, abandoning the policy of supporting Israel and ending the policy of demonizing Iran, explaining that America will remain responsible for destabilizing the region as long as it does not reform its wrong policies. , as he put it.

On what was stated in President Biden's article on the Palestinian issue, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Washington's practical policy towards Palestine contradicts Biden's claims in efforts to achieve security and stability in the region.

He added that Israel is the largest source of tension and the spread of organized terrorism in the region, and that Washington's support for it contradicts its claims to spread peace.

Kanaani also said that what was stated in Biden's article in the Washington Post is an untrue one-sided account of American policies, and that if Washington wants security and stability for the region, it must realize the facts and stop imposing American values ​​on other countries, and allow the countries of the region to work to ensure security and achieving their collective interests based on their own values ​​and within the framework of regional cooperation.

Prior to Biden's tour, Israeli statements were repeated about the need to build a regional alliance against Iran.


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Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that Iran is serious about reaching a good and lasting agreement in the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear file.

He added during his meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio in the Italian capital, Rome, that Iran should be able to fully benefit from the economic gains of the nuclear agreement through its good implementation.

He added that Washington should be aware of this reality in terms of providing guarantees, as he put it.

Abdullahian explained that Tehran had presented new initiatives throughout the negotiations, accusing the US side of not acting with logic and a sound approach, according to him.

Tehran and Washington say the door is still open to reaching understandings to revive the nuclear deal.

The latest rounds of indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran have not resulted in progress toward reviving the 2015 agreement.