No Talks With Any US President, Except at JCPOA Table

Iran will not enter into negotiations with the United States, regardless of who is in charge of its government unless Washington returns to the 2015 nuclear deal that it has unilaterally quit, a lawmaker said. 
"For Iran, it makes no difference who is the president of America; eventually, the US administration needs to return to JCPOA [before seeking talks with Tehran]," Hossein Naqavi told ICANA, using the abbreviation of the nuclear deal's formal name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. 
He made the statement in reference to US President Donald Trump's recent remarks about Iran waiting for the next president of America to make a new deal, ICANA reported. 
"They probably figure they can wait and maybe it will be [presidential candidate Joe] Biden and they’ll own America … and they know with me, it doesn’t work that way," he had said during a coronavirus taskforce press briefing last week, Mediaite.com reported. 
Trump pulled the US out of the international nuclear agreement in 2018 and reimposed heavy sanctions on Tehran to push Iranian leaders to resume negotiations over a new deal that would cover more areas of Iran's activities, including its defense programs and regional policies. 
Iran has refused to enter any new talks with the US unless it is within the framework of the nuclear deal's joint commission, when the sanctions are completely removed. 
"Trump is mistaken to think that Iran is waiting for the next administration to cooperate with them," Naqavi said. 
In his remarks, Trump had also said he would be willing to help Iran with the coronavirus response, if they reach an agreement with the US. 
"[We] would be willing to do something, if they want it, if they ask for it … if they needed aid or ventilators … What they should do is be smart and make a deal," he said. 
Naqavi underlined that there is no longer any platform for dialogue and cooperation with the US, after it exited the JCPOA.
"Iran's stance on relations with America is completely clear; there was a deal called JCPOA and we stress that we will have no ties and negotiations with the US outside this agreement's framework," he said. 
Naqavi noted that Trump's comments serve domestic rather than foreign policy objectives, and are aimed at helping him regain the popularity that has declined following his administration's failure to control the coronavirus pandemic properly.