If talks to revive 2015 Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers succeed, the United States should provide guarantees that it will not abandon it again, Tehran demanded on Monday , Reuters reports.
After being stalled since June after the election of hardline Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the indirect talks between Iran and the US to find ways to reinstate the JCPOA are set to resume on Nov. 29 in Vienna.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh pointed that Washington must guarantee that no other American government can flout the world or international law, referring to the 2018 pullout.
Khatibzadeh also stressed that Washington must lift all sanctions it has imposed on Tehran in a verifiable process and “recognize its fault in ditching the pact,” a deed of US President Donald Trump, who withdrew the United States from the JCPOA three years ago and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran, including a unilateral ban on its oil exports.
Khatibzadeh echoed in his statement Iran’s official stance and informed that Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri-Kani will travel this week as Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs to London, Paris and Berlin.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Amirabdollahian spoke by phone on Monday with his British counterpart, Liz Truss, about the Vienna negotiations, underscoring at the same time that the UK must pay back a long-standing debt of around $541 million to Iran as soon as possible.
The debt stems from a 1970s order for tanks that Tehran bought but never receives after the Islamic Revolution halted trade ties, and is often used as leverage in the release of dual nationals jailed in Iran.
He previously called on the West to be realistic and refrain from excessive demands on Iran.
Restoring the JCPOS (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) would see Washington ease its sanctions on Iran in exchanging for Tehran’s scaling back enrichment activity the West suspects is aimed at bomb making though Iran denies its nuclear programme aims to produce weapons.
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