November 30, 2021
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EU, Russia, Iran optimistic after resumption of nuclear talks

Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Friday that Iran was serious about the upcoming nuclear talks and wants “a good and verifiable agreement.”…reports Asian Lite News.

Diplomats from EU, Russia and Iran in Vienna expressed optimism amid a fresh round of Iran nuclear talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal after a hiatus of more than five months.

“I feel extremely positive about what I have seen today,” said Enrique Mora, Deputy Secretary-General of the European External Action Service, who chaired the talks, after the meeting.

There is “clearly a will” by the Iranian delegation to bring the JCPOA back to life, Mora added, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that inked the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Xinhua news agency reported.

Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s Permanent representative to international organisations in Vienna, said on Twitter that the participants agreed on further immediate steps during the seventh round of negotiations which started “quite successfully”.

Meanwhile, Iran’s top negotiator and Deputy Foreign Minister, Ali Bagheri Kani also expressed optimism after the talks.

However, it remains to be seen whether such optimism can be transformed into real results as diplomats from China, Russia, the UK, France and Germany, in addition to Iran, convened on Monday at the Palais Coburg hotel to try to revive the 2015 deal.

Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Friday that Iran was serious about the upcoming nuclear talks and wants “a good and verifiable agreement.”

“If other parties are ready to return to their full obligations and lift sanctions, a good and even immediate agreement can be reached,” Amir Abdollahian added in a telephone conversation with EU Foreign Affairs Chief, Josep Borrell.

The last round of talks over the restoration of the 2015 deal was held in June 2021.

The US government under Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 agreement in May 2018 and unilaterally re-imposed sanctions on Iran. In response, Iran has gradually stopped implementing parts of its commitments to the deal since May 2019.

Iran’s new negotiating team has set out demands for the revival of the nuclear agreement, including the removal of all US sanctions, verification mechanism for the removal of embargo, and guarantees from the US that the next administrations will not breach the deal.

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