Iran accuses the United States of "trying to cause chaos" to force concessions in nuclear negotiations

MADRID, 5 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian, has accused the United States and Western countries of "trying to cause chaos" in the protests that have been taking place in several Iranian cities since the death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini while she was in police custody.

"The United States and several Western countries sought to create chaos in Iran, and one of the objectives of the United States was to push Iran to make big concessions at the negotiating table," the Iranian foreign minister said.

In this sense, Amirabdolahian added that his country's authorities respond "to peaceful demands", but that they do not allow "anyone to disturb and terrorize" its citizens.

The leader of Iranian diplomacy has also made reference to his conversations with the High Representative for Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Josep Borrell, to reach an agreement to lift the sanctions.

Amirabdolahian made these statements in the framework of a press conference with his Serbian counterpart, Ivica Dacic, after a meeting between the two held in Belgrade to strengthen bilateral relations.

"We discussed bilateral, regional and international cooperation with the Serbian Foreign Minister, and we believe that Serbia is an eastern country in the west and a western country in the east, and we are ready to hold the 16th round of the Economic Commission Joint between the two countries in the near future," he explained, as reported by the Iranian media.

The United States special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, considered this Sunday that Iran has no intention of returning to the nuclear agreement it signed with the international community in 2015 - and right now practically suspended since the unilateral withdrawal of the United States in 2018- -.

Talks for Iran's return to the nuclear deal are virtually at a standstill. The Atomic Energy Nuclear Agency, the IAEA, denounced Iran's impediments last month when examining its facilities while Tehran has requested an end to these visits as a condition, among other unacceptable conditions for the US, to return to the agreement.