Any demands for financial compensation by the Iranian regime “are ridiculous,” State Department Principal Deputy Spokesman Tommy Pigott said Thursday after Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the Financial Times that America must agree on compensation before nuclear negotiation since the U.S. devastated Iran’s nuclear sites.

“If the Iranian regime really wanted to save money or alleviate some of the sanctions policy, they would stop taking destabilizing actions,” Pigott said at a State Department press briefing.

“They would stop wasting money on their nuclear program. They would stop sending money to terrorist death squads across the region. They would stop oppressing their own people. So if they really wanted to save money or find a way toward prosperity for their people, they would start taking those actions.”

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