JAKARTA - The White House confirmed that US President Joe Biden currently has no agenda to meet with Iran's president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi.
This statement came after Raisi in a press conference Monday, June 21 yesterday ready to carry out talks related to the 2015 Nuclear Deal, but ruled out a private meeting with President Biden.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said little had changed in Tehran, where major decision-making currently rests with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"We currently have no diplomatic relations with Iran or plans to meet at the leadership level," Psaki said.
"Our view is that the decision maker here is the Supreme Leader of Iran (Ayatolllah Ali Khamenei)," Psaki said.
Psaki said negotiators had completed a sixth round of talks on how Iran and the United States could return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear pact, a deal that could lift Western sanctions on Iran.
The White House, he said, would hope to see where this would lead, but they could not predict when or if a deal would be reached.
Psaki further said the White House would keep human rights on the table after negotiations on the nuclear deal. Psaki declined to predict when or if a deal would be reached, adding that officials were looking forward to seeing where it went.
Separately, the US State Department said it viewed the election process for Ebrahim Raisi as "quite far-fetched" and expected the Vienna nuclear talks to resume in the coming days.
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