TEHRAN —
Iran’s president said Wednesday his country’s demands were “reasonable” during
negotiations to restore its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
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“Iran has always acted completely rationally
and put on the table reasonable demands,” President Ebrahim Raisi said during a
cabinet meeting, according to his official website.
He added that all of Iran’s demands were made
within the framework of the 2015 agreement, known formally as the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Talks to revive the deal, following the
withdrawal of the US in 2018, began in Vienna in April 2021.
If successful, the renewed JCPOA will return
Tehran to full compliance with its nuclear commitments in return for
much-needed sanctions relief.
But negotiations have stalled since March,
with several unresolved issues remaining between the US and Iran.
In late June, Qatar hosted indirect talks
between the US and Iran in a bid to get the
Vienna process back on track, but
those discussions broke down after two days without breaching the impasse.
The US has accused Iran of raising issues
“wholly unrelated” to the nuclear deal — an apparent reference to Tehran’s
demand that the US remove its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp from a terror
blacklist.
Also on Wednesday, Iran’s foreign ministry
spokesman Nasser Kanani told reporters that the exchange of messages between
the US and Iran is continuing through EU mediation.
“Negotiations are going on as before through
the exchange of messages” between Iran’s foreign minister Hossein
Amir-Abdollahian and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, and between Iran’s
chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri and EU coordinator Enrique Mora, Kanani
said.
A new round of talks might be agreed upon, he
added.
“I think the time and the location of the
negotiations will be determined soon,” he added.
The JCPOA sought to guarantee Tehran could
not develop a nuclear weapon — something it has always denied wanting to do.
But the US unilaterally withdrew from the
accord in 2018, under then-president Donald Trump, and reimposed biting
economic sanctions, prompting Iran to begin rolling back on its own
commitments.
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