US State Department: We are frustrated by indirect talks with Iran in Doha

The United States confirmed on Tuesday that it was “disappointed” with the recent indirect nuclear talks with Iran in the Qatari capital, Doha.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a press conference at the ministry’s headquarters in Washington that “presenting anything beyond the narrow limits of the nuclear agreement indicates a lack of seriousness and lack of commitment, and this is unfortunately what the US team saw again in Doha” during the indirect talks that took place this week. The past between the US and Iranian delegations under the auspices of the European Union coordinator to revive the agreement.

Price stressed that Iran “has always made demands outside the framework of the nuclear agreement or issues that completely go beyond the framework of the agreement,” adding that the nuclear agreement, which the two sides seek to revive, “is related to only one thing, and that is Iran’s nuclear program.”

For his part, the US special envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, who headed the US delegation, confirmed that the Iranian side presented, during the Doha talks and before them, demands that “have nothing to do with the nuclear agreement.”

“The conversation that must take place at the present time is not very much between us and Iran, although we are ready for that, it is between Iran and itself,” Mali said during an interview with the American public radio broadcast earlier in the day.

“The Iranians must come to a conclusion about whether they are now ready to return to compliance with the agreement, and we have said that we are ready to return to compliance with the agreement,” he added.