Iran has dismissed any prospect of new talks with the United States on Iraq, accusing US-led forces of a “massacre” of the Iraqi people.”

Right now, what we observe in Iraq is a massacre of the Iraqi nation by the occupying forces,” Mohammad Ali Hosseini, a foreign ministry spokesman, told a news conference on Monday.

“Concerning this situation, talks with America will have no results and will be meaningless.”

Washington and Tehran held three rounds of ground-breaking discussions in Baghdad last year, easing a diplomatic freeze of almost three decades, but Iraqi officials have expressed frustration that a fourth round has failed to get off the ground.

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