TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Iran said Monday that if President Donald Trump wants to negotiate after pulling the United States out of the international nuclear deal with Tehran, he'll have to initiate the call.
The remarks by Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi came after Trump last week said that with the U.S. increasing sanctions on Iran, "at a certain point they're going to call me and say 'let's make a deal,' and we'll make a deal."
Qasemi said, however, "maybe someday he will call Tehran and ask for negotiations - this is more likely."
Trump in May said he was unilaterally pulling out of the agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, because he felt it wasn't strong enough and didn't cover other issues of concern to the U.S. and its allies, such as Iran's influence in the Middle East and a ballistic missile program.
Iranian Foreign Minister Muhammad Javad Zarif said Monday on Twitter that Tehran had filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice to "hold U.S. accountable for its unlawful re-imposition of unilateral sanctions."
"Iran is committed to the rule of law in the face of U.S. contempt for diplomacy & legal obligations. It's imperative to counter its habit of violating int'l law," he posted.
Zarif did not elaborate but Iranian officials have repeatedly accused the U.S. of imposing illegal sanctions on Iran after pulling out of the nuclear deal as well as breaching the deal before the pullout.
At his news conference, Qasemi also dismissed as "a joke” allegations that Russia has mediated indirect talks between Iran and the occupying regime of Israel.
"Claims of this nature can never be true,” he said. "News like this sound more like a joke to those who are familiar with Iran’s foreign policy,” he added.
Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida claimed Friday that Moscow had arranged indirect talks between Tehran and Tel Aviv over a number of issues, including Iran’s peaceful nuclear program and its military presence in Syria.
The Zionist is worried by the presence of Iranian military advisers whose help has been crucial to the Syrian army advances and Netanyahu has on several occasions asked Putin to arrange for them to leave the Arab country.
Iranian troops are in Syria at the request of the Syrian government but U.S. troops are there illegally, with Damascus saying they did not have a benign agenda and repeatedly calling for their exit.
The Kuwaiti paper went a step further, claiming that Iran had also set out conditions for accepting Trump’s demands regarding the Iranian nuclear program and asked Putin to discuss them with the U.S. leader in their Helsinki meeting Monday.
Qasemi said in his press briefing that the claim also was a lie and that Iran had in no way had discussed the content of the summit between the two heads of state.
"The meeting between the American and Russian presidents has been planned in advance and we have had no communications with Russia in this regard whatsoever,” he asserted.
"We have not sent any messages to Trump via Mr. Putin and talks about this issue are pure speculation by the media,” he added.
The spokesman also denied speculations about similar meetings between Iranian and American officials in Oman, in the wake of Zarif’s recent trip to the country.
"There is nothing secretive about Mr. Zarif’s trip to Oman,” Qasemi said, noting that Omani and Iranian delegations had held regular meetings in both countries shortly before the trip.
 Qassemi also said U.S. claims that it would bring Iran’s oil exports to zero are just a bluff and empty rhetoric, adding Tehran will do its utmost to thwart the plot.
The spokesman said Trump’s dream of halting Iran’s crude oil sales will never come true. "Mr. Trump both talks a lot and dreams a lot,” said Qasemi.
He said experience shows that Washington’s ambition to halt Iran’s oil exports is impossible to achieve in today’s world. Iran, he said, is in contact with all its political and economic partners plus all those who buy oil and non-oil goods from the country.