IAEA Secretary-General Rafael Grossie is arriving at the AEO office in Tehran, Iran’s capital, to meet with Ali Akbar Salehi, Director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency (AEO) on the 21st. Tehran = Reuters Yonhap News
Iran said it was considering an informal talks on the nuclear agreement (JCPOA, Comprehensive Joint Action Plan) proposed by the European Union.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakchi said in an interview on Iran’s state-run TV on the 21st (local time), “We are reviewing the informal talks proposed by Senior EU Foreign and Security Policy Representative Josef Borel.” “We are discussing this with partners including Russia and China and will respond to this proposal in the future,” said Vice Minister Arakchi. “”Borell has proposed an informal meeting including the United States and Iran.” “We don’t think the US returning to the nuclear agreement requires separate talks,” he added. “The only way to restore the nuclear agreement is to lift sanctions.”
Iran signed a JCPOA with the United States in 2015 during former U.S. President Barack Obama. The JCPOA, which Iran signed with five permanent members of the UN Security Council (US, UK, France, Russia, China) and six countries including Germany, focuses on lifting US sanctions against Iran instead of restricting Iran’s nuclear activities. . However, former President Donald Trump accused the JCPOA of being a “diplomatic failure” of former President Obama, unilaterally abolishing it in 2018 and restoring sanctions against Iran.
Iran has also gradually reduced the scope of JCPOA implementation from May 2019. With the inauguration of US President Joe Biden, who pledged to return to JCPOA, negotiations between the United States and Iran for the restoration of JCPOA were expected to begin.
Iran said that it is considering talks with the EU on the day, and there is also a prospect that the stalemate between the United States and Iran could be resolved through EU arbitration. Iran said it would refuse the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear inspection from the 23rd if the parties do not fulfill their obligations by this day.The United States expressed its intention to join if the EU held negotiations to restore the JCPOA Because.
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