Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif
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With the election of Joe Biden as the next US president, Iran has high hopes for an agreement on the nuclear dispute.
"Mr. Biden knows foreign policy far better than Trump," said Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in an interview with the daily newspaper "Iran", which belongs to the state news agency Irna.
In addition, the designated US President is also against the unilateralism of the current incumbent Donald Trump.
An agreement in the nuclear dispute with Biden is "quite feasible," said Zarif.
He has known Biden for more than 30 years and met him personally in New York during his own role as UN ambassador (2002 to 2007).
The Iranian Foreign Minister sees Biden's election as a realistic chance of reaching an agreement with the future US President in the dispute over the Iranian nuclear program.
As soon as Biden should decide to return to the Vienna nuclear agreement from 2015 and implement it, the leadership in Tehran will do the same immediately.
"That is quite feasible and needs neither conditions nor negotiations," said Zarif.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani had previously made a similar statement.
Trump left the nuclear deal in 2018.
The agreement should ensure that Iran uses its nuclear program only with a low level of uranium enrichment and exclusively for civil purposes and that it cannot build an atomic bomb.
In addition, Trump had also imposed new sanctions on the country.
In response, Iran also gradually ignored its obligations under the agreement.
The US sanctions plunged the Islamic Republic into the worst economic crisis in its history, which was exacerbated by the corona pandemic.
If the sanctions are lifted, oil exports, Iran's most important source of income, could pick up again.
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