Bloomberg quoted the US envoy to Iran, Robert Mali, as saying that US President Joe Biden's administration will focus on Iran on key files, including arms supplies to Russia, instead of the stalled talks to revive the nuclear deal.
This coincides with a meeting between Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin and the Iranian Chief of Staff, Major General Muhammad Bagheri, in Tehran, within the framework of the fourth meeting of the Joint Committee for Military Cooperation.
Bagheri said that Washington did not succeed in creating a unipolar world order and failed to impose a policy of unilateralism.
He also stressed the need to consolidate bilateral cooperation within the framework of common interests in order to establish peace and stability in the region, as he put it.
And the US State Department has said for some time that the Iran nuclear deal is "not its focus" at the present time, and instead it is "interested in supporting the protesters in Iran."
"The Iranians have made it very clear that this is not a deal they were prepared to make, and therefore it does not seem imminent," US State Department spokesman Ned Price said - in a press conference.
The spokesman added, "Iran's demands are unrealistic... and nothing we have heard in recent weeks indicates that they have changed their position."
In response to a question about whether the United States was interested in continuing talks to revive the agreement under which Iran restricted its nuclear program in return for easing economic sanctions, the spokesman stressed that "the current administration's focus is on the remarkable courage shown by the Iranian people through their peaceful demonstrations and their exercise of their universal right to freedom." assembly and freedom of expression.
"Our focus now is to highlight their courage and support them in any way we can," he added.