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Iran reiterated its refusal to negotiate over its missile and defense capabilities as issues related to its national security, stressing that the issue of the current talks in Vienna on the nuclear agreement is related to the United States because it is the one who violated the agreement and left it.
"It is absolutely clear that Iran does not negotiate at all about its missile and defense capabilities as issues related to the country's national security," Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, Iran's chief negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, told the British "Middle East Eye" website today. On his country’s rejection of recent speculations about the possibility of reaching a “interim agreement” or a “new nuclear agreement” that includes negotiating over Iran’s missile capabilities and its regional activities.
Regarding the ongoing talks in Vienna, Bagheri Kani said: “The issue of the current negotiations is related to America and not to Iran, because the Americans are the ones who violated the nuclear agreement, Resolution 2231 and international resolutions and left the agreement and then imposed embargo measures against the Iranian people.”
The chief Iranian negotiator pointed out that the steps taken by Tehran in the nuclear field in response to America's exit from the nuclear agreement and the Europeans' failure to implement their commitments towards it, "were compensatory steps and reactions, so the ball is now in the court of the Americans, who have to cancel the embargo," once again emphasizing that Iran is serious. very much in these negotiations.
Bagheri Kani indicated that the nuclear agreement "has not been properly implemented in recent years," adding that "the Americans, even when they were a member of the nuclear agreement, did not implement it correctly, and the Europeans who did not exit from the agreement did not implement it either and did not fulfill their obligations towards it."
In a related context, Deputy Bagheri Kani revealed that his discussions with the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, today dealt with cooperation between the two sides, stressing Iran's determination to have an active and positive presence in the Vienna talks.
"I had fruitful talks with Grossi with the aim of continuing technical cooperation between Iran and the IAEA," Bagheri Kani wrote in a tweet after the meeting.
In turn, the Iranian mission to international organizations in Vienna announced in a tweet following the meeting of Bagheri Kani and Grossi that "the bilateral talks took place in a constructive atmosphere," noting that "Iran has a real desire to continue close cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and also to deal effectively with regard to the Vienna talks."
And last Monday, discussions in the Austrian capital, Vienna, resumed by the Joint Committee on the Iranian nuclear deal between Iran and the major powers, with a focus on canceling the US embargo imposed on Iran.