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Iran ‘highly sceptical’ on US-North Korea nuclear talks
TEHRAN, June 11, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Iran said Monday that it remains dubious
about the prospects for talks between the United States and North Korea, and
warned Pyongyang to be highly vigilant about Washington’s promises.
“As regards US behaviour, approach and its intentions, we are highly
sceptical and look at its actions with utter pessimism,” foreign ministry
spokesman Bahram Ghasemi told reporters in Tehran.
“For the time being we cannot be optimistic about the United States’
behaviour, and the government of North Korea must approach this issue with
absolute vigilance,” he added.
Ghasemi said US President Donald Trump’s actions in abandoning the 2015
nuclear deal with Iran and other international agreements, had shown he was
an unreliable partner.
“We would like peace, stability and security to be established in the
Korean Peninsula,” he said, but added that experience in dealing with the US
and Trump had left it with “much pessimism”.
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Singapore on Sunday
for an unprecedented summit, with the US demanding complete, verifiable and
irreversible denuclearisation.
It comes just over a month after the US president pulled out of the
landmark nuclear deal with Iran and other world powers that put strict
restrictions on the Islamic republic’s nuclear programme in exchange for
sanctions relief.
BSS/AFP/MR/1410 hrs