Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs and International Affairs Kazem Ghalibabadi, together with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht Ravanshi, held an open and constructive discussion with Mr. Molla and his team in Geneva on the X social media platform. said that he had done so.
“We mainly exchanged views on nuclear and sanctions relief and other issues of mutual interest,” he wrote.
“We also mentioned European support for Israel’s crimes in Gaza,” Ghalibabadi concluded.
The JCPOA was signed in 2015 between Iran, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, and Germany. Former US President Donald Trump illegally withdrew from the agreement in 2018, but current US President Joe Biden has signaled he is open to reinstating it.
Russia, the UK, Germany, China, the US, and France have been in talks with Iran since April 2021 to revive the agreement.
JCPOA relief negotiations began in April 2021 in Vienna, the capital of Austria. The purpose was to assess the US’ seriousness about returning to the agreement and lifting anti-Iranian sanctions.
Negotiations have been stalled since August due to Washington’s stubborn stance that it would not lift all sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic by the previous US administration. Iran insists that if a deal is reached, the other side must provide some guarantee that it will abide by it.
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