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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Iran did not accept his offer for his visit to Tehran, he tweeted.

The idea to visit Iran was voiced by Pompeo in an interview. According to him, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif constantly comes to the US, where 'he enjoys the right to speak freely.’

“We aren’t afraid of Javad Zarif coming to America where he enjoys the right to speak freely. Are the facts of the Khamenei regime so bad he cannot let me do the same thing in Tehran? What if his people heard the truth, unfiltered, unabridged?” Pompeo tweeted.

In June, US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin announced that he was preparing sanctions against Zarif, but this decision was never made, while the US significantly restricted the freedom of movement of the Iranian Foreign Minister during his arrival in July in New York.

The same rules were applied to more than ten Iranian diplomats working in the permanent mission of the Islamic Republic at the UN and their families living in New York.

The representative of the Iranian Foreign Ministry said that the restrictions did not affect the work of the head of the department in New York. Zarif called such working conditions for diplomats inhuman.

Earlier, US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared their readiness to negotiate with Iran. Despite the fact that formally Washington does not put forward preliminary conditions, the subject of possible talks does not suit Tehran: Trump wants to conclude a new deal to replace the Iranian nuclear deal of 2015, from which the US withdrew last year. In this document, in the opinion of the American leader, certain obligations of Iran should be reflected in changing their policies, first of all, renouncing support for terrorism abroad and some requirements relate to the internal policy of the country.

Otherwise, the US threatens to continue the policy of strengthening sanctions against Iran. The Iranian authorities reject accusations of supporting terrorism and demand to stop the US from interfering in the situation in the country.

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