Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagri landed in Brussels tonight (Tuesday) in favor of a number of meetings with senior European officials amid a possible return to nuclear talks.
Bagri, 54, who took office after the election of Ibrahim Raisi as president of the Islamic Republic, will try to find a compromise through which they will be able, at least initially, to return to diplomatic efforts with the West after months of disengagement.
The disconnection has continued since the last round of talks held in June in Vienna, the capital of Austria.
Earlier, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bagry had rejected an offer from the three major European powers - Britain, France and Germany - for a joint meeting in the Belgian capital, instead insisting on meeting each country separately.
Nuclear talks in Vienna between Iran and the powers, archive, Photo: AFP
On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian announced that his country intends to return to the negotiating table "soon", without expanding or giving an exact date, but it is known that the removal of sanctions is an impassable condition for the regime.
Just yesterday, most of Mali, the Biden's special envoy to the Iran issue and who has been working for months to bring Iran back into talks with the United States, said yesterday that "the window to diplomacy will never be closed."
Mali claimed during a briefing given to foreign reporters that the powers were "at a critical time regarding the possibility of returning to the original nuclear deal," adding: "We believe the only solution to the nuclear problem is diplomatic. Iran says it wants to return to talks but does not. "It is too difficult to reach an agreement, because all that is required is their compliance with the restrictions set by the nuclear agreement and the cancellation of the sanctions imposed by the international community, which are not part of the agreement."
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