Vienna Talks on JCPOA Revival to Resume in Late November: Iran’s Deputy FM
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Baqeri said Iran and the EU have agreed to resume talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal and lifting of the illegal sanctions against Tehran in late November.
“In a phone call with (the European Union’s deputy foreign policy chief) Enrique Mora, we agreed to start the negotiations aiming at removal of unlawful & inhumane sanctions on 29 November in Vienna,” Baqeri, who is Iran’s chief negotiator in the talks, said in a tweet on Wednesday.
The European Union acted as the coordinator for the talks that led to conclusion of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the historic 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world countries.
The US, however, left the agreement in 2018 and re-introduced the sanctions that the accord had lifted.
Following a year of strategic patience, Iran resorted to its legal rights stipulated in Article 26 of the JCPOA, which grants a party the right to suspend its contractual commitments in case of non-compliance by other signatories and let go of some of the restrictions imposed on its nuclear energy program.
Iran and the remaining parties to the JCPOA have held six rounds of talks in the Austrian capital, which began after the administration of US President Joe Biden voiced a willingness to rejoin the nuclear agreement, to examine the prospect of the sanctions’ fresh removal.
The talks were, however, put on hold in the run-up to Iran’s presidential elections in June so that the Islamic Republic could go through a period of government transition.
