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The Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, reported this Saturday that indirect talks between his country and the United States on the nuclear pact will resume in the coming days, after holding a dialogue of more than three hours in Tehran with the high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell.
The Iranian minister expressed his satisfaction with Borrel’s visit and described it as positive. In addition, he explained that they will seek to resolve the pending issues in the next talks and that they hope that the US side this time will be “reasonable and fair”, to reach an agreement and “take responsible actions”.
“What is important for Iran is to fully receive the economic benefits established in 2015 and anything that could negatively affect this from the point of view of the Dr. Raisi Administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran is unacceptable,” Amirabdollahian said.
“New and much deeper relationships”
For his part, the head of foreign policy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, affirmed that his presence in Tehran is part of the implementation of a change in policies with the aim of offering the countries of the region “a new and much deeper” based on a broad agenda that includes global issues, green transition, digital transition, trade and regional security. “I cannot conceive of such a regional approach without Iran,” Borrell said.
The negotiations seemed to have a positive future in March of this year, when the European Union convened in Vienna, Austria, the foreign ministers that are part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to finalize the agreement, after 11 months of indirect talks between Iran and the US government. But these stalled, largely due to the demand made by Tehran and the refusal of the United States to remove its elite security force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), from the list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
“The pause is not three months, it has been March, April, May, June, that is more than a pause, it has to end. These months have passed and we need to accelerate our work, I am very happy and grateful for the decision that the minister has already announced, that the talks will resume. There are decisions that need to be made in Tehran and in Washington,” Borrell said.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action was established on July 14, 2015 in Vienna, with the participation of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany and the European Union. In this plan, Iran agreed in exchange to ease sanctions against it, eliminate its stockpiles of medium enriched uranium, decrease its stockpiles of low enriched uranium by 98%, cut its gas centrifuges by two-thirds for thirteen years, and not build any new heavy water nuclear reactor, as well as the installation of surveillance camera systems at nuclear facilities so that the International Atomic Energy Agency could monitor and verify compliance with the agreement.
However, in 2018, during the presidency of Donald Trump, the United States abandoned the treaty and reimposed punishments on Iran, which responded a year later with the resumption of its nuclear work, uranium enrichment and a few weeks ago with the disconnection of 27 surveillance cameras of nuclear plants.
With information from Reuters, AFP and AP
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