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Iran: No secret talks with Trump administration

Politics Materials 23 January 2017 13:29 (UTC +04:00)
Iran hasn’t held any secret talks with the new US administration, Bahram Qasemi, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said responding to a reporter’s question at a press conference in Tehran Jan. 23.
Iran: No secret talks with Trump administration

Tehran, Iran, Jan. 23

By Mehdi Sepahvand, Fatih Karimov – Trend:

Iran hasn’t held any secret talks with the new US administration, Bahram Qasemi, the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said responding to a reporter’s question at a press conference in Tehran Jan. 23.

“We have no contacts with US administration and no messages have been communicated between the two sides,” Qasemi said, Trend correspondent reported from the press conference.

The comments come weeks after Javad Karimi Ghoddousi, a member of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, said that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif “is attempting to contact” Donald Trump’s team.

Karimi Ghoddousi said that after Trump won the presidential election, Zarif unsuccessfully made efforts to connect his team, in particular Trump’s secretary of state nominee, Mehr news agency reported.

During the press conference, Qasemi also said that it is too early to make an assessment about the US President Donald Trump’s policies.

“Unlike the previous presidents, whose situation was partly clear during the presidential campaigns, it is not possible to make a detailed evaluation about Trump,” he said.

However, Qasemi said Iran doesn’t have much hope for a fundamental change in the US policies.

Earlier, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, speaking about Trump’s negative comments on the nuclear deal between Tehran and the six world powers, said those are more slogans than to happen in practice when Trump takes office.

“The nuclear deal is beneficial to the US as well, but Trump doesn't understand that,” Rouhani said.

Iran and P5+1 (the US, UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany) reached a nuclear deal, which came into force in January 2016.

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