Tehran 0
25 September 2019

President Rouhani asserted that “America says that it will put Iran under maximum pressure until we talk and negotiate... America must do away with that precondition, take away all of the sanctions and maximum pressure, and wish to conduct talks”. He added that “then, in a free and responsive atmosphere, only then, I think these...efforts will bear fruit between the two countries”. Rouhani went on to contend that “the ball today is in the field of the U.S. The fundamentals between the U.S. and Iran is that for trust to be restored”.

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