“Dr Zarif basically had no plan to meet US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson,” Qassemi noted in a statement on Friday.
Back on Monday, Zarif told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that although he had no contacts with Tillerson, there are possibilities of engagement between Washington and Tehran in regards to the nuclear agreement in the future.
“There are no communications between myself and Secretary Tillerson,” Zarif said, but at the same time noted that “it doesn’t mean that there can’t be possibilities for engagement with regard to nuclear deal — we have always been open.”
