Iran Press/Iran News: Saeed Khatibzadeh, the spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was referring to the former IRGC member Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, who was brutally assassinated in an armed attack by two motorcyclists in Tehran on May 22. He played a significant role in the fight against the ISIS terrorist group and other terrorist outfits in the region.
Khatibzadeh said: "We know which the third party committed this act. The response to the assassination of Martyr Sayyad Khodaei will receive a painful message from secret channels."
He also answered the question of the Iran Press Correspondent that the assassination was carried out shortly after the presence of Alena Douhan, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Negative Impact of Unilateral Coercive Measures on the Enjoyment of Human Rights, in Iran, and said: "Alena Douhan's findings in Iran were completely freely and objectively. She met with many political figures and NGOs, and we had the least involvement in her choice of topics."
At the end of her 12-day visit to Iran, Douhan slammed the United States for its brutal sanctions regime against the Islamic Republic of Iran, asserting that harsh economic sanctions have had a damaging impact on human rights in the country.
Khatibzadeh said: "The UN human rights rapporteur in Iran spoke freely and observed the extent of illegal sanctions."
Malley's recent remarks; not Iran's criterion for any political comment
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman rejected the US Special Envoy for Iran's comment on reaching an agreement saying that it would not be Iran's criterion for any comment in this regard.
Regarding the US Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley's remarks that there was little chance of reaching an agreement, Saeed Khatibzadeh in his presser on Tuesday said: "These remarks are not our criteria for comment."
He further explained: "Our action in the Vienna talks is clear, and what is important is to receive the message through the usual means."
The United States has not yet made the necessary political decision, he stressed.
Tehran says it will not tie the country’s progress to the removal of sanctions and that neutralization of the impact of sanctions is being resolutely pursued, separate from efforts to remove them through talks in Vienna.
Talks to revive the 2015 Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA, remain stalled after a year of intensive diplomacy.
Senior diplomats from Iran and the P 4+1 group, namely Russia, China, Britain, France, and Germany have held many rounds of talks in the Austrian capital Vienna.
Grossi's report, neither real, nor fair
The spokesman of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi's recent report does not reflect the reality of the talks between the IAEA and Iran and it is not fair and balanced.
In response to a question about the report of the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, Iran's Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: "The recent report of the International Atomic Energy Agency does not reflect the reality of the talks between Iran and the IAEA."
He further explained that following the agreement reached between Iran and the IAEA in Tehran, Iran had written responses to the IAEA.
Khatibzadeh continued: "Yesterday's report of the IAEA is the same report that Grossi announced in the European Parliament hurriedly."
He further stated that This report was summarized from that time and even before the meeting between Iran and the IAEA, and it seems that this was a hasty move.
"The report is not fair and balanced," Khatibzadeh noted.
Earlier, Iran's permanent representative to the Vienna-based International Organizations Mohammad Reza Ghaebi said the latest report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the country’s stockpile of enriched uranium is one-sided and fails to reflect Iran's extensive cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Tehran says the entire peaceful nuclear activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been carried out within the framework of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and in accordance with the legal compensatory measures in the law adopted by the Iranian Parliament following the suspension of Iran's nuclear obligations due to non-fulfillment of obligations by other parties.
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