Iran slams Trump for proposing talks and reimposing sanctions at the same time

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• Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed a US call for talks on Monday.
• It came hours before Washington was due to impose new sanctions in line with President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of a 2015 agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.
• "If you stab someone with a knife and then you say you want talks, then the first thing you have to do is remove the knife," Rouhani said.
• Senior Iranian officials and military commanders have rejected Trump’s offer of talks as worthless and "a dream," saying his words contradicted his action of reimposing sanctions.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed a US call for talks on Monday, hours before Washington was due to impose new sanctions in line with President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of a 2015 agreement over Iran’s nuclear program.

Washington has said the only way Iran could avert the sanctions would be to agree to new negotiations to abandon its missile and nuclear programmes.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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