Dubai: Iran is not ruling out negotiations with the United States even after an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, the country's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said in an interview released on Saturday.
Zarif told Germany's Der Spiegel magazine that he would never rule out the possibility that people will change their approach and recognise the realities, in an interview conducted on Friday in Tehran.
There has been growing tension between Washington and Tehran since 2018 when President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the nuclear deal with Iran. The US has since reimposed tough sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy.
But Zarif suggested that Iran was still willing to talk, though reiterated his country's previous demand that first, the US would have to lift sanctions.
For us, it doesn't matter who is sitting in the White House, what matters is how they behave, he said, according to Der Spiegel.
Zarif said that the Trump administration can correct its past, lift the sanctions and come back to the negotiating table. "We're still at the negotiating table. They're the ones who left," he added.