Hopes for US-Iran talks chilled, as Rouhani says sanctions must be lifted first

摘要

London-Iran on Tuesday threw cold water on the idea of a meeting with US President Donald Trump, reiterating that sanctions that have crushed Tehran’s oil exports must be lifted as a precondition to any nuclear talks -a move US officials have repeatedly rejected. “If you lift all the sanctions, bow respectfully to the Iranian nation, well then the conditions will be different,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech, after Trump said Monday he would be willing to meet “if the circumstances were correct” and might extend a credit line secured by Iran’s oil to help Tehran’s beleaguered economy.