Pompeo says US is ready to conclude a new nuclear agreement with Iran

The US is ready to conclude a new agreement with Iran which will guarantee that it will never produce nuclear weapons, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said in his interview to German newspaper Rheinische Post.

"We’re prepared to engage in a conversation with no preconditions,” Mr. Pompeo said at a news conference in Switzerland, which acts as a conduit between Washington and Tehran. “We’re ready to sit down with them. But the American effort to fundamentally reverse the malign activity of the Islamic Republic, this revolutionary force, is going to continue.”

Nuclear experts said Iran had been complying with the nuclear agreement, which it had negotiated with six world powers in 2015 in exchange for the lifting of harsh economic sanctions. The agreement limited Iran’s ability to produce nuclear fuel for 15 years.

"I think exactly the same. This can not be accepted, so we came out of the deal," Pompeo said.

"In addition, we cannot turn a blind eye to the fact that other threats emanate from Iran, directly in Germany, in the center of Europe. The Iranian missile program is developing, Iran places members of the Hezbollah movement everywhere in the world, carries out attacks in Europe," the US Secretary of state said. According to him, "the nuclear deal has not changed anything."