Pompeo said his country was ready to talk with Tehran 'with no preconditions', but there was no indication if lifting sanctions over Iran's nuclear program was on the table
Bellinzona - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday his country was ready to talk with Tehran"with no preconditions", but there was no indication if lifting sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme was on the table.
"We are ready to sit down with them," Pompeo told a joint news conference with his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis at the impressive medieval Castelgrande castle in Bellinzona, nestled in the Alps in Switzerland's Italian-speaking Ticino region. Pompeo himself also appeared to back-pedal on the offer to have condition-free talks with Iran, stating that Washington was"certainly prepared to have conversation when the Iranians will prove they are behaving as a normal nation."Nonetheless, Pompeo's comments mark the first time the Trump administration has offered no-strings-attached talks since the recent escalation began in the wake of the US withdrawal from a hard-won 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Last month it deployed an aircraft carrier task force, B-52 bombers and an amphibious assault ship to the Gulf, along with additional troops against what Washington's leaders believed was an imminent Iranian plan to attack US assets.
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