LONDON – Iran has rejected the deal offer made by the United States.
Iran hit back at a U.S. offer of negotiations on Thursday, sayingWashington had violated the terms of the last big deal they agreed, the2015 nuclear accord.
U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of that nuclear accord – whichcurbed Iran’s atomic activities in return for sanctions relief – in May,saying it did not go far enough.
The U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, said on Wednesday thatWashington now wanted to negotiate a treaty that included Tehran’sballistic missile program and its regional behavior.
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Hook said the new deal that Washington hoped to sign with Iran, would notbe a “personal agreement between two governments like the last one, we seeka treaty.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter to dismissthe characterization of last deal as a “personal agreement”, saying it was“an int’l accord enshrined in a UN (Security Council resolution)”.
