NCRI – The Iranian regime denied it has not sent any message to US. officials for direct talks on its nuclear program.
Hassan Danaifar told the state-run news agency ISNA: “This news is false and is totally in correct.”
The New York Times reported that Prime Minister Nouri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq told the Obama administration this month that the Iranian regime was interested in direct talks with the United States on the regime’s nuclear program.
“In a meeting in early July with the American ambassador in Baghdad, Maliki suggested that he was relaying a message from Iranian officials and asserted that Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s incoming president, would be serious about any discussions with the United States,” according to accounts of the meeting publish in the Times.
The Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei warned Sunday that Washington was “not trustworthy” enough to forge diplomatic ties with.
The remarks came after some U.S. officials and a group of lawmakers urged diplomacy with Iranian regime’s incoming president Hassan Rouhani.
“I said at the beginning of the (Iranian) year that I am not optimistic about negotiations with the US, though in the past years I did not forbid negotiating (with them) about certain issues like Iraq,” he told regime’s officials at an “iftar” evening meal that breaks the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
“The Americans are … not trustworthy and they are not honest in their encounters… The stance of American officials over past months once again confirms that one should not be optimistic,” he said at the iftar, attended by Hassan Rouhani and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Khamenei has the final say in the Iranian regime’s major policy issues.
