Tehran is waiting for “details” from Moscow regarding Russia’s demands for US guarantees, which could delay an agreement to restart the 2015 international pact on Iran’s nuclear program, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday (March 7), Khatibzadeh said.
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Amid optimism about an imminent deal as part of the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna, Russia, hit by Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, on Saturday demanded U.S. assurances that the retaliatory measures would not affect its cooperation with Iran.
“We are waiting for details through diplomatic channels”
During his weekly briefing, the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Tehran “learned about the statements (on this subject by the head of Russian diplomacy Sergey) Lavrov in the media, and we are waiting for details through diplomatic channels. Written by Iran on the one hand and the US, China, France, Britain, Russia and Germany on the other, the 2015 agreement should prevent Iran from obtaining an atomic bomb, even if that country has always denied such an intention. .
The talks in Vienna are aimed at bringing Washington back to the pact it unilaterally withdrew from in 2018 and bringing Tehran back to honoring its obligations violated in response to the reintroduction of US sanctions. The United States is indirectly participating in the negotiations. Moscow plays a central role in enforcing the 2015 pact, known as the JCPOA, in particular by receiving tons of excess enriched uranium from Tehran.
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“It is important that Iran’s peaceful cooperation with other countries, including Russia, should naturally be free from sanctions, especially when it comes to sanctions imposed by the country, and not by the united peoples,” Said Khatibzadeh added. “Russia’s approach so far has been constructive in reaching a collective agreement in Vienna,” he said. On Sunday, Washington dismissed Moscow’s new demands as “irrelevant,” saying sanctions imposed on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine had “nothing to do” with Iran’s nuclear record.