TEHRAN, Jul 27 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, yesterday said that, the conclusion of talks, to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal, requires U.S. determination.
Iran never left the negotiating table, and it was the westerners, who created a crisis in these negotiations, said Raisi, referring to the issuance of a recent anti-Iran resolution, in the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Stating that the conclusion of negotiations requires, more than anything else, the “will” of Washington, Raisi said that, Iran’s position is “logical and rational, and if the other side behaves logically and rationally, the negotiations can lead to a result.”
Iran signed the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with the world powers in Jul, 2015, agreeing to curb its nuclear programme, in return for the removal of sanctions on the country. However, former U.S. President, Donald Trump, pulled Washington out of the agreement in May, 2018, and reimposed unilateral sanctions on Iran, prompting the latter to drop some of its commitments under the pact.
Talks to revive the deal began in Apr, 2021, in Vienna, but were suspended in Mar this year, because of political differences between Tehran and Washington. Both sides held indirect talks in Doha, Qatar late in June, but failed to settle their differences.– NNN-IRNA
