No date has been set for the next round of negotiations between Iran and the United States (US), Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister said \u200bon Saturday, adding that a framework of understanding must be agreed first.<\/p>\n
The \u200chighest-level US-Iran talks since the 1979 Islamic Revolution ended in Islamabad without agreement last weekend.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has told Reuters there would probably be more direct talks this weekend, though some diplomats \u200bsaid that was unlikely given the logistics of convening in Islamabad, where the \u200btalks are expected to take place.<\/p>\n
“We are now focusing on finalising \u2060the framework of understanding between two sides. We don’t want to enter into any \u200bnegotiation or meeting which is doomed to fail and which can be a pretext \u200bfor another round of escalation,” Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters on the sidelines of a diplomacy forum in the southern Turkish province of Antalya.<\/p>\n
“Until we agree the framework, we cannot set the date… There \u200bwas significant progress made actually. But then the maximalist approach by the other side, \u200btrying to make Iran an exception from international law prevented us to reach an agreement,” he said, \u200creferring \u2060to US demands over Iran’s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n
“I have to be very crystal clear that Iran would not accept to be an exception from the international law. Anything that we are going to be committed will be within the international regulations and international law.”<\/p>\n
Asked \u200babout reports that Iran \u200bagain closed the \u2060Strait of Hormuz on Saturday after its temporary reopening following a separate US-brokered 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon on Thursday, Khatibzadeh \u200bsaid Iran had announced it would allow the safe passage \u200bof commercial \u2060vessels in line with the terms of the truce.<\/p>\n
“The other side, the American side, tried to sabotage that by saying that it is open except for Iranians. So that was \u2060the reason \u200bwe said that ‘if you are going to violate \u200bthe ceasefire terms and conditions, if Americans are not going to honour their words, there will be repercussions \u200bfor them’,” he said.<\/p>\n
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