White House says no nuclear talks
The White House confirms that the US does not have diplomatic relations with Iran, nor does it have plans to meet with Iranian leaders hours after Ebrahim Raisi was elected president of Iran.
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Jen Psaki: We look forward to knowing where the nuclear talks have reached.
On Monday, the White House announced that Washington has no plans to hold meetings with Iran at the senior leadership level after the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi confirmed he would not be meeting with his American counterpart Joe Biden to discuss lifting US sanctions.
In response to a question about the impact of the new Iranian president on the nuclear deal talks, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki indicated that "We look forward to knowing where the nuclear talks have reached and seeing what happens," she added, noting that "the President’s view and our view is that the decisionmaker here is the Supreme Leader. That was the case before the election; is the case today; will be the case, probably, moving forward."
In this context, Psaki pointed out that "the negotiations (in Vienna) did not enter the seventh round, and the delegations returned to their capitals for consultation, and we are looking forward to knowing what this will lead to."
Raisi had confirmed, in his first press conference, that he did not want to meet with US President Joe Biden. He pointed out that the new government's foreign policy does not start from the nuclear agreement, nor does it conclude the same way.
"We will support any negotiations that guarantee our nuclear interests, and we will not allow the negotiations to be draining," Raisi stressed.
President Raisi stressed that the nuclear agreement should be saluted by European countries and America, adding that "the Iranian people demand that you abide by your commitments."
