mo4ch:>‘Lift sanctions & apologize if you want to talk,’ Iran’s Rouhani tells Washington | Mo4ch News

The US should first drop sanctions and apologize, if it wants to sit down for negotiations, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said, after Washington stepped up “maximum pressure” on Tehran.“Negotiation is only possible if all the pressures are lifted, they apologize for their illegal actions and there is mutual respect,” Rouhani said on Wednesday.He stated that Tehran is open to talks with Washington, but the US is simply “not ready for any dialogue” and only seeks to “subdue the people of Iran.”Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, meanwhile, said that the country will thwart any attempts of the US to block its oil trade.“The efforts to boycott the sale of Iran’s oil won't get them anywhere. We will export our oil as much as we need and we intend,” Khamenei wrote on Twitter.They should know that their hostile measure won’t be left without a response.The warning came after US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, announced that Washington will stop issuing sanction waivers for the buyers …