The Iranian Foreign Ministry this morning (Monday) rejected the statements of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi that she was the one behind the attack on the Israeli-owned ship. .
The ministry also denied Netanyahu’s remarks regarding the Iranian nuclear program, claiming that Iran’s nuclear targets were for domestic use only.
Meanwhile, the ministry issued a statement that the US should remove the sanctions it imposed on Iran before returning to the 2015 nuclear deal: “President Joe Biden and his administration need to change the ‘maximum pressure’ policy Trump has imposed on Tehran … if they want to talk to “Iran, they must first remove the sanctions.”
It was also reported that Iran would continue to work with the IAEA and cooperate with the UN, despite the reduction in cooperation between them. The Wall Street Journal quoted two senior diplomats yesterday as saying that Iran had rejected an offer by the European Union and the United States to hold direct talks in the coming weeks on the nuclear deal.