Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that Iran held no direct talks with the US regarding the Vienna Talks in the past few months, adding that some messages have been received through EU Foreign Policy Chief Enrique Mora though which were given a prompt response.

Khatibzadeh made the remarks during his weekly press briefing on Monday when he also reacted to a US National Security Advisor who had talked of a "direct" message from Washington to Tehran.

He said that during the latest round of nuclear talks in Vienna, the Iranian delegation present in the negotiations was targeted with a media and public diplomacy warfare by some countries bigger than any times before which ran contrary to what was actually happening around the negotiations table.

Especially, he stressed, the three European countries occasionally indulged in this kind of campaign by offering both false and engineered information instead of concentrating their time and energy on the talks.

 

Source: IRNA