Iran Press- Iran: Bahram Ghasemi dismissed the remarks made by US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, quoted in a foreign media, about Iran's request to arrange a meeting with Donald Trump on the sidelines of 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, as "ridiculous and an effort to create a psychological atmosphere seeking specific purposes."
"Such remarks are psychological plots by media outlets used as a red herring to reverse reality in a clumsy way; these methods are perfectly known to us, and our history is full of these types of fake news against us," he noted.
"I repeat it once again that the Islamic Republic of Iran has never requested a meeting with Donald Trump," he further stressed.
Trump will host the UN Security Council on Wednesday, during a week of meetings marking 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly. The session begins on Tuesday and runs for nine days.
Previously, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also said that there was no point in a meeting between Hassan Rouhani and Donald Trump.
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The remarks came just months after US President Donald Trump fulfilled his election campaign promise and withdrew his country from a 2015 multilateral nuclear deal with Iran despite objections from the other parties – Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China – and the entire world community.
Washington’s exit from the landmark Iran deal was interpreted as yet another sign of the US’s growing unilateralism under Trump.
On May 8, US President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached between Tehran and the world powers in 2015.
Washington has since told countries they must stop buying the OPEC producer's oil from November 4 or face financial consequences.
Under the JCPOA, Iran undertook to put limits on its nuclear program in exchange for the removal of nuclear-related sanctions imposed against Tehran.
Besides sanctions, Trump administration is pursuing regime change in Iran. Referring to recent riots in some cites in Iran, Pompeo claimed that Iranians are not happy and US want them to have a strong voice in who their leadership will be.
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