India, March 8 -- Iran on Friday declined to resume negotiations on its nuclear programme with the United States if President Donald Trump continues to implement his "maximum pressure" campaign against it.

Trump wrote to Iran on Friday, asking Tehran's leadership to come to the negotiating table or face a military attack. "I've written them a letter, saying I hope you're going to negotiate because if we have to go in militarily, it's going to be a terrible thing for them," he told Fox Business.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told AFP that his country will remain in contact with other negotiators under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreement, but not the US when Trump persists in ratcheting economic sanctions on ...