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US views diplomacy as best way to resolve issues on Iran nuclear program
Jean-Pierre made the comments after Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday Iran could hold direct talks with the United States if Washington demonstrates “in practice” that it is not hostile to the Islamic Republic.
Pezeshkian was responding to a question at a news conference in Tehran on whether Tehran would be open to direct talks with the US to revive a 2015 nuclear deal.
“We are not hostile towards the US, they should end their hostility towards us by showing their goodwill in practice,” said Pezeshkian, adding: “We are brothers with the Americans as well.”
The US under former president Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed sanctions against Iran.
After taking office in January 2021, US President Joe Biden tried to negotiate a revival of the nuclear pact under which Iran had restricted its nuclear program in return for relief from US, European Union and UN sanctions.
However, efforts to revive the deal have not yielded so far.