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July 17, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/us/politics/iran-pompeo-missiles.html

Iran Denies It Is Willing to Negotiate over Missile Program

(New York Times) David E. Sanger - A spokesman for Iran's foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said Tuesday that Iran's missiles "are absolutely and under no condition negotiable with anyone or any country, period." When Zarif repeated past demands on Sunday that if the U.S. "wants to talk about missiles, it should stop selling weapons, including missiles, to regional states," this was taken as evidence that Iran was willing to negotiate over its missile program. Philip Gordon, a Middle East official in the Obama administration who helped to negotiate the 2015 accord, said, "even if both sides overcame the obstacles to talks, there's no sign that Iran is remotely willing to accept the sort of deal the administration has said would be its bottom line."

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