KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran’s supreme leader will not meet US President Donald Trump unless Washington halts its “economic terrorism” that has hurt ordinary Iranians.

Zarif says the removal of US sanctions could also help salvage the Iranian nuclear deal, from which the US unilaterally withdrew last year.

He says Tehran has the right to reduce its compliance under the nuclear pact after the US left but it can easily “revert back to full implementation” if the US fulfills its commitment and returns to the table.

He told a forum in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday that “you do not negotiate with terrorists. If they want to negotiate, they have to abandon terrorism,” in reference to the rollback of sanctions.