Iranian FM: Americans, Europeans must be 'realistic' in Nuclear talks
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Russian and Chinese counterparts share a phone call with Amir-Abdollahian on the JCPOA Nuclear Talks.
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Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, discusses the Nuclear Talks with China and Russia.
Iran's Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, asserts that if the Americans and the Europeans were to negotiate, then they would have to be "realistic" in order to achieve an effective and speedy agreement.
On a phone call with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, the Iranian minister contended that the United States failed in coercing Iran with its "campaign of maximum pressure at a time it claims its desire to negotiate."
On another note, China's foreign minister stressed that the United States is the main obstacle obstructing the implementation of the nuclear talks, hoping that Washington would regret its mistakes and lift all sanctions on Iran.
Within the same seating, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov expressed his support for the resumption of the 2015 nuclear agreement in its original form, according to a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The statement mentioned that the Russian and Iranian top diplomats have held a telephone conversation, during which they “focused on the situation around the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran's nuclear program and the prospects for resuming the Vienna negotiations on the JCPOA.”
“The parties called for restoring the nuclear deal in its original balanced form, approved by the United Nations Security Council. They confirmed that it was the only way to ensure the rights and interests of all parties to the comprehensive agreement," the statement said.
During the phone call, Lavrov said that all parties should return to the nuclear agreement and that Washington should first fulfill its commitments and then stop its measures that continue to sabotage the course of the nuclear agreement.
For his part, Amir-Abdollahian praised Russia's constructive and positive positions on the nuclear file, adding that the advance of negotiations rapidly depends on the European and American abstention from making demands outside the framework of the agreement and the adoption of a realistic and constructive approach.
As per the 2015 agreement between Iran and six major countries, Tehran reduced its uranium enrichment program in exchange for lifting the sanctions imposed by the United States, the United Nations, and the European Union.
