Tehran, Mar 11 (UNI) Iran has not received any letter from the United States on negotiations about the country's nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday.
In an interview with Fox Business Network on Friday, Trump said he wanted to negotiate with Iran on the nuclear issue and had sent a letter to the country's leadership.
Baghaei said Iran had never closed the door to negotiations. "However, we do not accept a negotiation proposal that is based on intimidation and threat and basically do not consider it as a negotiation," he said.
He warned that threatening to use force is considered "prohibited and a criminal action" under international law. By claiming "all options are on the table," Washington is actually threatening Iran, he said, referring to remarks by Trump's national security advisor Michael Waltz in February.
Meanwhile, Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations in New York also announced Monday that the country had not received any letter from Trump.
Iran signed a nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with six major countries -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United States -- in July 2015, accepting restrictions on its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief.
However, during Trump's first term of office, the United States withdrew from the deal in May 2018 and reinstated sanctions, prompting Iran to scale back some of its nuclear commitments.
Efforts to revive the nuclear deal have not achieved substantial progress. Iranian officials have repeatedly stressed that the country would not negotiate with the United States under pressure and sanctions.
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