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Iran denies linking cooperation on Iraq to sanctions

 Iran denies linking cooperation on Iraq to sanctions

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iran has denied linking any future cooperation with the United States against terrorists in Iraq to the removal of western sanctions, Tasnim news agency reported on Friday.

Western media quoted Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif as saying on Wednesday that Tehran was ready to cooperate with Washington against the so-called Islamic State militant group in return for UN sanctions relief.

The claims are “unfounded,” an Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.

What Zarif actually said was that “If we agree to do certain things at (the nuclear facility in the Iranian city of) Arak, then they should agree to do certain things in return; one of those things would be for them to go to the (UN) Security Council and lift the sanctions,” the spokeswoman added. /End/

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