Iran expects an "imminent" resumption of international negotiations on the Iranian nuclear deal suspended since June, its foreign minister said on Wednesday after a meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow.
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I stressed the fact that we are currently finalizing our consultations on this subject, and that very soon we will relaunch negotiations in Vienna,"
said Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. His counterpart Sergei Lavrov assured that Iran "
is ready
" for it, and that from now on the "
international community expects the United States to return to the legality of the nuclear agreement and the cancellation of the illegal restrictions targeting
" Tehran. .
Earlier on Wednesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry indicated that Sergei Lavrov had met with his American counterpart, Antony Blinken, and that they had raised the issue of the resumption of negotiations. These talks have been interrupted since the election in June of a new Iranian president, but Tehran has regularly assured that it wants to resume them.
Concluded in 2015 between Iran on the one hand and the United States, United Kingdom, China, Russia, France and Germany on the other, the agreement offered Tehran the lifting of a part of international sanctions in exchange for a drastic reduction in its nuclear program, placed under strict UN control.
But after the unilateral withdrawal of the Americans from the agreement in 2018 under the presidency of Donald Trump, Tehran gradually abandoned its commitments.
The United States in turn imposed sanctions.
