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“The idea of holding negotiations over the revival of the country’s nuclear agreement under pressure has never worked, and such tactics has never yielded the US and Europe any result,” President Rayeesi said in a televised interview on Saturday night.
“Negotiation and dialog have always been and will continue to be part of the instruments that are in the service of diplomacy. We do not balk at negotiation and dialog,” he added.
The Iranian president pointed out that such pressure tactics have nothing to do with negotiation.
“I have directed them (the country’s authorities) to include negotiation on the agenda, but not under the shadow of the pressure that they (the West) are pursuing. But the Americans and the Westerners are after negotiation in conjunction with pressure,” he added, “This is while negotiations are there to avoid pressure,” President Rayeesi further said.
“I will not take even one step back from trying to revive the Iranian nation’s rights, because they (the US and the Europeans) have subjected the nation to pressure through the sanctions,” he added.
The agreement, which is officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), came about between Iran and the G5+1 group of countries, the US, the Britain, France, Russia and China plus Germany, in Vienna that year. It lifted nuclear-related sanctions against Iran in exchange for the Islamic Republic’s enacting some voluntary restrictions on its peaceful nuclear energy program.
However, the US left the JCPOA under President Donald Trump in 2018 and reimposed the sanctions as part of its policy of “maximum pressure” targeting the Islamic Republic. Its European allies in the agreement, namely the UK, France, and Germany, bowed down to the American pressure and started to toe the sanctions line as closely as possible.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian president said the US military presence in Afghanistan for two decades only resulted in the suffering of the Afghan people.
“As a result of the oppression that the Americans and other foreign countries imposed on Afghanistan, the country has suffered a great wound,” the president said.
Rayeesi pointed out that the only way out of Afghanistan’s woes is the establishment of an all-inclusive and representative government in the absence of all foreign interference.
“They should let Afghanistan take its own decisions in the area,” the president said.
Iran considers Afghanistan and all other neighboring countries’ security to be integrated with its own, he said, calling for speedy reestablishment of calm in the violence-wracked country.
In relevant remarks earlier this week, President Rayeesi said history and experience of the regional and world states now proves that the US military deployment never leads to the establishment of security and stability.
The experience of the US presence in different countries and other parts of the world proves that this presence has never brought security, Rayeesi said on Wednesday, addressing a cabinet meeting in Tehran.
The US has been always detrimental to security, stability, and peace in the world, he added.
Rayeesi described what has happened in Afghanistan for at least the last two decades as a blatant violation of human rights.
The number of women and children who have been killed, injured, or maimed in Afghanistan over the years, shows that a silent catastrophe has been happening on in the country, he stressed.
