Iran’s Rouhani says US offered to lift sanctions for talks

Tehran: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said Friday that European leaders at a UN summit in the US said Washington was ready to lift sanctions in exchange for talks on a 2015 nuclear deal.
“The German chancellor, the UK prime minister and France’s president were there (in New York). They insisted that this meeting happen, and that America, too, is saying that it will lift the sanctions,” Rouhani said on state television.
“The next issue was over what sanctions will be lifted,” he said.
“They insisted that we will lift all sanctions.” Some European officials offered to “write it down.. This (lifting of sanctions) will happen”, he said.
Rouhani has long emphasised that US-Iran talks cannot happen until Washington lifts sanctions and ends its policy of “maximum pressure” on Tehran.