Our Door Not Closed For Negotiations To Resolve Dispute Over Nuclear Agreement With World Leaders-Iran

Iran, on Monday said it has not closed the `door to negotiations’ in efforts to resolve a dispute over its nuclear agreement with world powers.

Foreign Ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said any further move by Tehran to scale back its commitments to the deal would depend on actions by other parties, after European states triggered a mechanism that could lead to the re-imposition of U.N. sanctions, Reuters reports.

Britain, France and Germany, also signatories to the pact, triggered a dispute mechanism in January, citing Iranian violations.

This starts a diplomatic process that could lead to U.N. sanctions being re-imposed.

“Tehran still remains in the deal. The European powers’ claims about Iran violating the deal are unfounded.

“Whether Iran will further decrease its nuclear commitments will depend on other parties and whether Iran’s interests are secured under the deal.’’

Britain has said a `Trump deal’ could replace the 2015 agreement and France has called for broad talks to end a crisis with the United States, which briefly erupted into tit-for-tat U.S.-Iranian military action in January.

Mousavi repeated Iran’s rejection of a `Trump deal’ saying Iranian officials have said Trump could not be trusted, so such deal would not have any value.