“We have always believed in talks … if they lift sanctions, end the imposed economic pressure and return to the deal, we are ready to hold talks with America today, right now and anywhere,” Rouhani said in his Sunday speech.

US President Donald Trump will make the final decision for talks with Iran, Pompeo said, adding, “recent remark of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is the same offer that he offered to John F. Kerry and Barack Obama,” referring to the former US secretary of state and president.”

“President Trump will obviously make the final decision. But this is a path that the previous administration had gone down and it led to the (Iran nuclear deal) which this administration, President Trump and I both believe was a disaster,” Pompeo said.

Pompeo’s remarks came at a time that US President Donald Trump has voiced his readiness for unconditional talks with Iran.

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“Sec. Pompeo tried to distract from Manafort and gain points with president by attacking me today. Facts were wrong, message was wrong. I met Zarif in Munich but not with Kerry and Moniz. Met Zarif again in NY in April,” Sherman tweeted.

She added, “Like John Kerry and Ernie Moniz, I have served my country for years and find it more than offensive to have a Secretary of State not understand we are all in this together to ensure American security.”

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“If your house is burning down, do you say to the fire department, ‘Don’t put the fire out, because it may burn down again in 15 years?’” Kerry said, according to The Atlantic. “That’s where we were with Iran. We put out the fire. And Trump has lit the fire again.”

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In an interview with Switzerland’s Neue Zurcher Zeitung newspaper, Kerry said, “Trump’s exit is surely the biggest strategic mistake since the Iraq war and one of the most significant mistakes in American history.”

“The U.S. has chosen a strategy vis-a-vis Iran as it once pursued President Bush against Iraq, a strategy of ‘regime change’. As history shows, this does not come out well,” he warned.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has been making the harshest attacks on the international agreement. In a statement on January 12, Trump gave Europeans only 120 days to agree to an overhaul of the nuclear agreement and said if the text of the deal is not revised he would unilaterally withdraw the U.S. from it.

However, Kerry, one of the leading negotiators on the deal, told the Munich Security Conference that “this is untenable. It is not good diplomacy.”

“I believe it is absolutely critical for Europe, for the world, to make sure we hold on to this agreement,” Kerry noted According to AP.

Iran, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the U.S., UK, France, Russia, and China – Germany and the European Union struck the nuclear deal on July 14, 2015. Immediately after the forging of the nuclear agreement, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution turning the deal into an international law.

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Kerry defended the deal during a forum in Washington, where he said that a number of kings and foreign presidents told the U.S. that bombing was the only language to use in relation with Iran, AP reported.

Kerry said that in his opinion it was “a trap” because the same countries would have publicly criticized the U.S. if it did carry out a bombing of Iran as they were secretly supporting.

Kerry said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “genuinely agitating toward action” against Iran.

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“Important to note the simple things – the Iran nuclear deal is working, doing precisely what it was set up to do,” Kerry told a gathering at Britain’s Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House on Monday.

He added, “I heard the U.S. president say there’s a violation of the spirit of the Iran deal – There was no spirit of the deal.”

On October 13, Trump in a major confrontational stance against the Islamic Republic of Iran refused to certify the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

“The Iranian regime has committed multiple violations of the agreement…,” Trump claimed then.

Addressing these remarks, Kerry said, “The violation idea has been pulled out of the sky. There is no science, no evidence that would merit decertification.”

“China and Russia played significant roles in JCPOA, a truly global effort; we need more of that not less.” the former U.S. secretary of state said.

The 159-page nuclear agreement between Iran and the 5+1 group (Russia, China, the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany) was reached in July 2015 and came into force in January 2016.

Since the historic deal was reached, the International Atomic Energy Agency has in eight reports confirmed the Islamic Republic’s compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA.

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