Iran has not yet received a new response from US, says MFA Spokesman
Referring to the visit of Enrique Mora, the European coordinator of the Vienna talks to Tehran and Washington, the Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said: "Mr. Mora had messages during his visit to Tehran. Our message was very clear and we tried to take another path, but no new response has been received from Washington yet."
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Referring to the diplomatic missions of the ministry in the last year, he said: "In the field of neutralizing sanctions to promote private and public trade, selling oil and non-oil products, we had achieved an acceptable point."
In response to preventing one of the Iranian artists from entering the United States, he said: "Washington has politicized everything, and contrary to all the slogans, what is ultimately important to it is only its policies."
A renowned Iranian traditional vocalist could not perform in California last week after US agents interrogated him for hours and denied him an entry visa.
Organizers of the sold-out celebration of the Persian New Year, Nowruz, said 49-year-old Alireza Ghorbani was unable to attend after being detained by agents in an airport in Toronto on Friday and refused entry to the United States following an interrogation.
The foreign ministry spokesman has said that Iran welcomes a ceasefire in Yemen and was waiting for months for it.
Khatibzadeh responded to Iran Press about the violation of the ceasefire in Yemen and said that it had not been confirmed by Yemen’s National Government yet.
What is important is that for months Iran has been encouraging Saudi Arabia to stop taking action, he added.
Since 2015, the Houthi resistance movement had taken control of the country when Yemen's former Saudi-backed government Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi fled amid a political crisis, refusing to stay behind and negotiate a solution.
Saudi Arabia and its regional allies attacked Yemen in March 2015 to bring back to power the deposed president of Yemen, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi.
Since then, the invaders have committed horrible war crimes against Yemeni civilians.
On April 2, 2022, Hans Grundberg, the UN special envoy for Yemen, said that the National Salvation Government in Yemen and the Saudi-led coalition had responded positively to the UN proposal to establish a two-month ceasefire.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh had expressed hope that the move would be the beginning of a complete lifting of the blockade and a permanent ceasefire and a political solution to the Yemeni crisis.
Iran has been calling for an end to the Saudi-led war on Yemen. In April 2015, Iran presented a four-point plan to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Based, in which Tehran proposed a ceasefire, ending the blockade on Yemen, providing humanitarian aid to the people, and establishing an inclusive national unity government.
Now, the ceasefire in Yemen must be accompanied by Yemeni conversations inside the country and accessing humanitarian aid for them, Khatibzadeh said in his presser today.
Regarding Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s phone talk with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, Khatibzadeh, pointed out that this conversation was about Yemen’s situation too.
Khatibzadeh also referred to Afghanistan’s situation and expressed concern about the women and children deprived of their fundamental rights.
He added that Afghanistan’s government must take responsibility so that Afghanistan can overcome this crisis.
Khatibzadeh, once again, emphasized forming a comprehensive government in Afghanistan and said that the Afghan people are Iran’s priority.
