Iran's foreign ministry said on Friday that the United States had no option but to strike a nuclear deal with Tehran, after a Republican bid to block the agreement failed, AFP reports.President Barack Obama hailed as a "victory for diplomacy" Thursday's Senate vote during which a Democratic minority staved off the bid to sink the nuclear deal.
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham, however, played down his comments saying it was "explicitly paradoxical," the official IRNA news agency reported.
She said the United States "was forced into negotiating" the deal with Iran due do the "failure of the U.S. policy of sanctions and threats".
"The U.S. president, fruitlessly, tries to claim the results of the nuclear negotiations, but the truth is ... the U.S. had no alternative but giving up its excessive demands," Afkham claimed, according to AFP.(READ MORE)
