{"id":18431,"date":"2020-01-27T06:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T06:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=18431"},"modified":"2020-01-27T06:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T06:16:51","slug":"trumps-dream-about-direct-talks-with-iran-wishful-thinking-zarif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/trumps-dream-about-direct-talks-with-iran-wishful-thinking-zarif\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s dream about direct talks with Iran \u2018wishful thinking\u2019: Zarif"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-summary\">\n<p class=\"summary introtext\">TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (MNA) \u2013 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has dismissed any possibility of a bilateral meeting between Iran and the US as \u201cwishful thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>\u201c@realDonaldTrump is still dreaming about a bilateral meeting\u2014to satisfy HIS lust for a &#8220;Trump deal&#8221;. It\u2019s wishful thinking,\u201d Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in a tweet on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Zarif went on to add that \u201cThe only possible venue for talks is at the P5+1 table\u2014which HE left\u2014reverting to pre-2017, AND compensating Iran for damages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tweet followed an earlier one by Zarif, in which he mocked Trump for rejecting what he falsely interpreted as Zarif\u2019s call for bilateral talks with Washington on the condition of lifting US sanctions against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Zarif then urged Trump to base his foreign policy decisions on \u201cfacts\u201d rather than biased news headlines of his favorite right-wing Fox News TV outlet, or his Farsi translators.<\/p>\n<p>Zarif\u2019s remarks were in reaction to Trump\u2019s tweet \u2013 written in both Farsi and English &#8212; earlier in the day in which he claimed the Iranian foreign minister wanted to \u201cnegotiate\u201d with Washington and \u201csanctions removed.\u201d He then rejected the purported request by writing: \u201cNo Thanks!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his Friday interview with Der Spiegel, Zarif had said that the Trump administration could lift the sanctions that it had reimposed on Iran after withdrawing from the nuclear deal and then come back to the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (MNA) \u2013 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has dismissed any possibility of a bilateral meeting between Iran and the US as \u201cwishful thinking.\u201d \u201c@realDonaldTrump is still dreaming about a bilateral meeting\u2014to satisfy HIS lust for a &#8220;Trump deal&#8221;. It\u2019s wishful thinking,\u201d Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in a tweet &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18433,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18431\/revisions\/18433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}