“There is no question of the United States participating directly in future negotiations”
Tehran wants an irrevocable return of the United States to the Vienna agreement on Iranian nuclear power, concluded in 2015 between the great powers, and that Washington make amends for having withdrawn unilaterally three years ago.
“It is clear. This country must ensure that no other American government can flout the world or international law and never repeat what it has done” by withdrawing from the multilateral agreement it had signed Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Khatibzadeh told reporters on Monday.
“The United States must recognize its responsibility in the current situation, that it reconsider what it did and that it definitively lift the unjust and illegal sanctions which it imposed after its withdrawal from the nuclear agreement” in 2018 under the presidency of Donald Trump, continued Mr. Khatibzadeh.
Interrupted since June, negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program to relaunch a historic 2015 agreement – drastically limiting the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for easing economic sanctions on the country – are due to resume on November 29 in Vienna.
The countries still parties to the agreement (Iran, Germany, China, France, United Kingdom, Russia) will meet in the presence of European negotiator Enrique Mora.
According to Mr. Khatibzadeh, however, there is no question of the United States participating directly in the first stage in future negotiations, the latter being “no longer members of the agreement”.
And as long as “the Islamic Republic cannot ensure that the illegal and extraterritorial sanctions of the United States are completely and effectively lifted, after verification and guarantees required, Iran will not stop its compensatory measures”, he said. he added.
Mr. Khatibzadeh also announced that the head of Iranian negotiators would be Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri. The latter is due to go this week to London, Paris, Berlin and “perhaps to Madrid”, he said.
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