US: Upcoming Mideast conference not aimed at demonizing Iran
The United States said Tuesday an international conference next month to promote peace and stability in the Middle East is not aimed at demonizing Iran.
US deputy ambassador Jonathan Cohen told the Security Council that the conference in Warsaw on February 13-14 sponsored by the United States and Poland is also not aimed at discussing the merits of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal known as the JCPOA, which US President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018.
Cohen's comments followed a tweet by Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who denounced the upcoming conference as America's anti-Iran "circus." Poland's foreign minister Jacek Czaputowicz said in remarks published Monday that Iran wasn't invited and Russia would not attend.
