Tue Feb 12, 2013 16:25:17
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast says direct talks between the Islamic Republic and the United States would not yield any results when Washington shows no goodwill.
“It is natural that a negotiation where the opposite side has no honesty and does not intend to cooperate and [show] goodwill and claims to seek talks at the same time as [employing] pressure and threats will not produce any results,” Mehmanparast said during his weekly press conference on Tuesday.
The Iranian official said that Washington needs to stop its hostile policies toward Iran before the Iranian nation considers any such talks.
Referring to the agreement between Iran and Argentina to set up a fact-finding committee to investigate the 1994 bombing attack on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), Mehmanparast said, “The officials of Iran and Argentina held talks and agreed to cooperate to clarify the AMIA issue and these agreements are taking their natural course.”
Cooperation between the officials of the two countries would definitely help resolve the issue, he added.
On January 27, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and his Argentinean counterpart signed a memorandum of understanding for the two countries to shed light on the bombing of the AMIA building in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 people.
Under intense political pressure imposed by the US and the Zionist regime, Argentina formally accused Iran of having carried out the bomb attack. The Islamic Republic has categorically denied any involvement in the bombing.
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