Iran Urges US to Stop ‘Excessive Demands’ Regarding Nuclear Deal
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian urged the US to stop making "excessive demands" about reaching an agreement in talks to resurrect a 2015 nuclear deal, according to the foreign ministry's website.
Amirabdollahian also reiterated Iran's determination to reach a "good, robust, and lasting" nuclear agreement in a Thursday phone call with his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani.
In a separate telephone conversation with the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, on Monday night, Amirabdollahian had urged the White House to refrain from "using pressure and sanctions as leverage" in the nuclear talks.
Al-Thani and Borrell both expressed support for Iran's efforts to reach a final agreement in the nuclear talks.
In July 2015, Iran signed the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with world powers, agreeing to limit its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. However, former US President Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the agreement in May 2018 and reimposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran, prompting the latter to abandon some of the pact's commitments.
The talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal began in Vienna in April 2021 but were suspended in March of this year due to political differences between Tehran and Washington.
The talks resumed in late June in Qatar's capital, Doha, after a three-month hiatus, but failed to resolve the differences.