Iran has received messages from intermediaries, including Pakistan, but has had no direct negotiations with the U.S., spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Affairs Ministry Esmail Baghaei said today.\u00a0His comments contradict President Trump.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the last round of talks, what has been presented are messages received via some intermediaries, including Pakistan, indicating America\u2019s desire and request for negotiation,\u201d Baghaei said in a weekly news conference in Tehran this morning.\u00a0Trump said last night the U.S. was negotiating \u201cdirectly and indirectly\u201d with Iran and making good progress.<\/p>\n
Global trust in America\u2019s diplomatic claims is very limited, Baghaei said, as he blamed the U.S. for continuously changing its positions and making contradictory statements. Iran\u2019s position has been firm, he said. \u201cWe know well what our framework is. As I have noted before, the matters communicated to us, under any title such as the 15-point plan, mostly include very excessive, unrealistic, and unreasonable requests,\u201d said Baghaei, referring to the proposal sent by U.S. negotiators.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If regional and neighboring countries are concerned about peace and security, this is commendable, Baghaei added, but a \u201crealistic and fair perspective is necessary\u201d from any mediators, he said, and restraint should not be expected from only one side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has received messages from intermediaries, including Pakistan, but has had no direct negotiations with the U.S., spokesperson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-554233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}