Iran will not participate in an informal meeting with the signatories to the Iranian nuclear agreement to discuss ways to reactivate the document. The information was released by Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh.
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Earlier this Sunday (28th), two diplomatic sources, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, they had reported that Iran declined an offer from the European Union and the United States to hold direct talks on a nuclear deal in the coming weeks.
“Considering the recent actions and statements by the United States and three European powers, Iran does not consider this the time to hold an informal meeting with these countries, which was proposed by the EU’s foreign policy chief,” said the spokesman. Iranian.
The European Commission previously confirmed that European diplomacy would be working to convene an informal meeting of participants in the Joint Global Action Plan (JCPOA) on the Iran’s nuclear program with representatives of the United States.
The United States had also announced his interest in negotiations with Iran under the auspices of the EU and with the participation of the “six” international mediators, which include Moscow and Beijing. In response to Washington’s statement, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, again asked the United States to lift sanctions against Tehran.
The Global Joint Action Plan, completed in 2015 by the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Russia, the USA, France and Iran, providing for the suspension of sanctions in exchange for limiting Tehran’s nuclear program did not last even three years: in May of 2018, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to withdraw unilaterally and restore tough sanctions against Tehran.
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