Iran: US naive in thinking sanctions will change things

6 November 2018, 2:22 pm

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Iran’s deputy foreign minister says the US is misguided in thinking new sanctions will force Tehran back to the negotiating table over its nuclear program or easing tensions.

The United States has the “very simple naive” view that Iran will wilt under pressure, Seyed M. Kazem Sajjadpour says in London.

“The assumption is, we cut the money of the oil, then Iran will be deprived, then Iranian people will revolt, then the system will be changed, then we are fine, then the paradise will come,” he says in a Chatham House talk.

He says this view “negates the reality of Iran and the realities of foreign politics.”

Sajjadpour says Iran is self-confident and will not be forced to negotiate by having a knife put to its throat.

— AP