Iran: No Secret Talks with US
“There is no secret talks underway between Iran and the US,” Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham said in her weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
“The nuclear issue was discussed during the negotiations and within the framework of the talks with the Group 5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France and Britain plus Germany),” she added.
Western media claimed recently that the United States and Iran have been secretly engaged in a series of high-level, face-to-face talks over the past year that paved the way for the historic deal reached between Tehran and the six powers in Geneva.
In relevant remarks in November, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif categorically dismissed a media report by French-language daily Le Figaro claiming on November 21 that Iranian and US diplomats had held secret talks in recent weeks on Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and ways to boost Tehran-Washington trade ties after signing a possible agreement between Iran and the six powers.
“It is a sheer lie and we have had no negotiations with the US except on the nuclear issue,” Zarif said at the time.
On Geneva 24, Iran and the G5+1reached a final deal after days of hard work and intensive negotiations.