[Regnum] Iran will never discuss with the United States the cessation of the republic's nuclear program. This was stated by the Iranian mission to the UN on March 9.
"If the goal is to dismantle Iran's peaceful nuclear program in order to claim that what [44th US President Barack ] Obama could not achieve has now been achieved, such negotiations will never take place," said a statement published on H.'s social network.
It is also noted that Tehran allows the possibility of holding negotiations on its nuclear program only if the topic of discussion is possible militarization.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on March 7, US President Donald Trump said that he had sent a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proposing to hold talks on the country's nuclear program. Washington is considering both military and diplomatic solutions to the issue, but prefers negotiations, the American leader clarified.
The next day, Khamenei said Tehran would not negotiate with the US because the White House was trying to impose its own interests on the republic instead of solving problems. Trump responded by saying that time was running out for the US to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran.
The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov recalled Moscow's position, according to which the US and Iran should resolve the issue of the nuclear program only by peaceful, political and diplomatic means. He also added that the topic of Iran was raised during the talks in Riyadh, but it was not discussed in detail.