Raeesi meets President Biden and refuses to negotiate on missile program

 Raeesi meets President Biden and refuses to negotiate on missile program

 

Ibrahim Raisi addressed the first news conference on Monday after being elected President of Iran.

 

Iran's newly elected president, Ibrahim Raisi, has said he will not meet with US President Joe Biden or hold talks on Iran's missile program and support for militant groups in the region.

 Speaking at his first press conference since being elected president on Monday, Ibrahim Raisi said President Biden would have to prove his seriousness by lifting sanctions on Iran.

 According to Iran's state-run news agency IRNA, in response to a question, Raisi said he would advise the United States to return to the nuclear deal because it is a demand of the Iranian nation.

 According to the Associated Press, when asked if he would like to meet with the US President, he simply said "no".

 The White House has not yet commented on Reese's remarks.

 When newly elected Iranian President Ibrahim Raeisi was asked in 1988 about the alleged involvement of more than 5,000 people in Iran in executions on political grounds, he said that as a lawyer he defended human rights. Believe in

 Ibrahim Raisi is accused of being part of a "death panel" set up after the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s to punish alleged political opponents in Iran.

He further added that those responsible for human rights violations in the world should be held accountable. "I am proud to have defended the rights of the people as the Prosecutor General," he said.

 

Iran-Saudi Arabia relations: 'Embassies can be opened' :

 Ibrahim Raisi added that restoring relations with neighboring countries was one of his priorities. He   said it was possible for Iran and Saudi Arabia to open embassies in each other's countries.

 He said there was no impediment to talks with other countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia.

 "Negotiations depend on Khamenei's decisions"

 Following the confirmation of Ibrahim Raisi's election victory, US National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan said on Sunday that US re-participation in an international agreement to prevent Iran from pursuing a nuclear program depended on Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. E will be on the decisions.

 Ibrahim Raisi will take office in August, ending the eight-year rule of incumbent President Hassan Rouhani. But US National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan told ABC News' This Week show on Sunday that it does not matter who is elected president.

 He said it was not important whether his (Iran's) entire system was ready for verifiable promises for Iran's renunciation of nuclear weapons.

The United States is in talks with five other world powers to rejoin the 2015 agreement. The deal was struck under former President Obama, but President Trump came to power after it broke away from the deal, saying it was not enough to stop Iran's nuclear program.

 Following the decision, President Trump's administration reimposed sanctions on Iran that were lifted as a result of the agreement.

 Incumbent Biden was vice president at the time of the deal with Iran under President Obama. President Biden has conditionally agreed to rejoin the deal with Iran after his predecessor, former President Trump, withdrew from the deal.

 What happened in Vienna? 

 A six-nation summit in the Austrian capital, Vienna, to resume the 2015 nuclear deal has been postponed to Sunday, and diplomats have returned to their home countries for further consultations.

 This was the first meeting on the nuclear deal in Iran since the election of Ibrahim Raisi.

 According to the Associated Press, some diplomats at the meeting feared that the re-election of Ibrahim Raisi, a conservative president, could complicate the resumption of the nuclear deal.

 "We are close to an agreement, but no agreement has been reached yet," said Enrique Moura, an EU official who has led talks between Russia, China, Germany, France, Britain and Iran.

 No US envoy is directly involved in the talks in Vienna, but President Biden's administration has signaled the resumption of the 2015 agreement with Iran.

 According to the Associated Press, a US delegation has held indirect talks with Iran in Vienna. The countries participating in the nuclear deal acted as coordinators in these contacts.

 "We are very close to an agreement, but it will not be easy to bridge the gap that still exists between us and the agreement," said Abbas Araqchi, head of the Iranian delegation to the Vienna talks.

 In his interview, Jack Sullivan pointed out the same situation.

 He said there was still a long way to go on key issues. He also said that our journey is moving in the right direction and it remains to be seen whether Iran will be able to make difficult decisions.

"In our view, diplomacy is the best solution to this problem," he said. We are very clear that Iran will have to shut down its nuclear program.

 In another interview with Fox News Sunday, he said a possible deal with Iran could extend beyond the current agreement's deadline of 2030.

Saudi Arabia's Silence:

 According to Reuters, other Gulf countries, including the United Arab Emirates, have congratulated Ibrahim Raisi on his election as president.

 On the other hand, in his first press conference, the newly elected President of Iran, Ibrahim Raeisi, also talked about the possibility of opening embassies in Iran and Saudi Arabia.

 Although the UAE's relations with Iran are strained, the UAE has issued a congratulatory message, but Saudi Arabia has remained silent since the election.

 Abdul Rahman Rashid, an analyst in the Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, wrote that with the success of Raeesi, we do not expect significant changes because the foreign policy authority is with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the compromise on the nuclear deal will be light. The president's team is doing it.

According to Reuters, Saudi Arabia and its allies are watching the ongoing talks between Iran and world powers to restore the 2015 agreement. The Gulf states have expressed reservations that the talks did not address Iran's missile program and its alleged proxy wars in the region.

 Analysts say progress in the Vienna talks will determine the direction of talks between Saudi Arabia and Tehran, which will begin in April.

 It should be noted that in April, when the world powers started talks on Iran's nuclear program, the talks between Saudi Arabia and Iran also started.

 In April this year, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman also expressed a desire for better relations with Iran and adopted a more conciliatory tone than in the past.