The Iranian foreign minister contracted covid-19, the local press announced, as his country said it was ready to return to international negotiations on its controversial nuclear program.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, 57, “tested positive for the coronavirus today,” the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday.
This career diplomat was named foreign minister in August by ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raissi.
“The general state (of the minister) is satisfactory and he continues with his daily work in quarantine,” said ministry spokesman Said Khatibzadeh, quoted by the official Irna agency.
The announcement came after Khatibzadeh announced on Monday that negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program would begin “in the next two or three weeks.”
In 2015, Iran concluded a historic agreement with five powers (China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and Germany), which allowed the relaxation of international sanctions against Tehran in exchange for a drastic limitation of its nuclear program.
But the United States unilaterally withdrew from the pact in 2018 and reinstated sanctions against Iran, which, in response, has broken its commitments.
Since June this year, talks to relaunch the agreement have been at a standstill, although Iran has now said it is willing to relaunch them.
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