TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iranian legislator described Washington's offer of direct talks with Iran as a deceitful move, and underlined that Washington should show its good will to the Iranian nation in action, and not in words.


"While the US leaders show no good will towards the Islamic Republic of Iran in action and we don’t witness any change in their behavior, discussions over the issue of negotiations have no purpose and are actually aimed at deceiving the public opinion," Rapporteur of the parliament's Cultural Commission Seyed Ali Taheri told FNA on Wednesday.

Taheri expressed suspicion over Washington's intention for settling problems with Tehran through talks, and said the US wants to weaken Iran's leading role in the campaign against hegemonic powers by bringing Tehran to the negotiating table.

In relevant remarks on Tuesday, Iranian Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Lotfollah Forouzandeh also underlined that no direct talks can take place between Tehran and Washington as long as the US refrains from changing its hostile policies towards Iran, and called the offer nothing but a deceptive move.

“The US offer of talks with Iran is a new deceptive move by them (the American officials),” Forouzandeh said.

He reminded the recent statements of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, on the lack of sincerity on the side of the Americans, and said the Leader's remarks noted the same fact.

Forouzandeh stated that the US should abandon its hostile policies in order to show that it is not pursuing animosity towards Iran.

Ayatollah Khamenei on Sunday urged Iranian officials to keep vigilant about direct talks with the US, saying that Washington’s empty promises testify to the White House’s unreliability and dishonesty towards the Iranian nation during the past decades.

“…I am not optimistic about negotiation with the US although I have not rejected negotiations over certain issues such as Iraq in the past years,” Ayatollah Khamenei said, addressing a group of senior Iranian officials attending an Iftar (Fast breaking) ceremony in Tehran.

The Leader underlined that the US officials are unreliably and dishonest.

A total of 131 US congressmen on Friday called on President Barack Obama to use the opportunity of the election of Hassan Rouhani as Iran’s incoming president and offer direct talks with the Islamic Republic.

Political observers believe that the West has remained at loggerheads with Iran mainly over the independent and home-grown nature of Tehran's nuclear technology, which gives the Islamic Republic the potential to turn into a world power and a role model for the other third-world countries. Washington has laid much pressure on Iran to make it give up the most sensitive and advanced part of the technology, which is uranium enrichment, a process used for producing nuclear fuel for power plants.

By Fars News Agency

 

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