(Tehran) Iran is ready to reach a “good deal” on the nuclear issue during negotiations to open on November 29 in Vienna, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday.
“At the negotiating table in Vienna, we are ready to reach a good deal,” the minister said in a tweet.
He did not give details of this “good agreement”, but stressed that “the return of all parties to their commitments (in the 2015 agreement) is an important and essential principle”.
Stalled since June, negotiations between Tehran and the great powers aim to relaunch the 2015 agreement which drastically limits Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for easing economic sanctions against Iran.
Deeming this agreement insufficient, former US President Donald Trump withdrew his country from this pact in 2018 and then reinstated the US sanctions against Iran that this text had initially allowed to be lifted. In return, Tehran has gradually freed itself from the commitments made in this agreement.
But Donald Trump’s successor, Joe Biden, said he was ready to return to the agreement, provided that the Islamic Republic of Iran at the same time renews its commitments.
According to the head of Iranian diplomacy, the Iranian deputy foreign minister and chief negotiator at the Vienna talks, Ali Bagheri, is “engaged in fruitful negotiations in Europe”.
The latter is touring this week in London, Paris, and Berlin.
The 2015 agreement is supposed to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, while Tehran has repeatedly denied any intention to manufacture such a weapon by insisting on the peaceful nature of its program.