Tehran, May 25 -- Iran on Monday said that an agreement aimed at a complete solution to the hostilities in West Asia with the United States is 'not imminent' despite progress made on several key issues between the two sides.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei, during a weekly press briefing, said that the developments in negotiations reported in recent days were the result of "several weeks of talks" conducted through Pakistani mediators, who have been acting as a diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran since the talks began without yielding any significant outcome.

Baghaei also criticised what he described as inconsistent messaging from Washington, saying that "politics in America has reached a point of hyper...