Saudi minister says maximum pressure only way to get Iran to negotiate
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A senior Saudi official said on Thursday that a policy of appeasement would not work with Iran and that the only way to get Tehran to the negotiating table was to apply maximum pressure.
Saudi Minister of State Adel al-Jubeir was in Paris for talks with French officials amid efforts to defuse U.S.-Iranian tensions and help Yemen's Saudi-backed government and southern separatists end a power struggle in the southern port of Aden.
"We think that appeasement doesn't work. Actions count, not words. Members of the Iranian government talk, but have no power. Those who have, like the Revolutionary Guards, don't want to negotiate," Jubeir told Liberation newspaper in an interview.
