Tehran expects from Moscowdetailsregarding Russian demands for American guarantees, which could delay an agreement to relaunch the 2015 international pact on Iran’s nuclear program, Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Khatibzadeh said on Monday (March 7).
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Amid optimistic statements about an imminent deal in the ongoing nuclear talks in Vienna, Russia, hit by Western sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, demanded on Saturday US guarantees that these retaliatory measures would not affect its cooperation with Iran.
“We are waiting to have the details through the diplomatic channel”
During his weekly press briefing, Iran’s foreign affairs spokesman claimed that Tehran had “read the comments (on this subject of the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei) Lavrov in the media, and we are waiting to have the details through the diplomatic channel“. Concluded by Iran on one side, and the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and Germany on the other, the 2015 agreement is supposed to prevent Iran from acquire the atomic bomb even if this country has always denied such an intention.
The talks in Vienna aim to bring Washington back into the pact, which left it unilaterally in 2018, and to bring Tehran back to respecting its commitments, broken in response to the reinstatement of American sanctions. The United States participates indirectly in the negotiations. Moscow plays a central role in enforcing the 2015 pact known by the acronym JCPOA, in particular by receiving the tons of excess enriched uranium from Tehran.
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“It is important that Iran’s peaceful cooperation with other countries, including Russia, is naturally free from sanctions, especially when it comes to sanctions imposed by a country and not by the United Nations.added Said Khatibzadeh. “Russia’s approach so far has been constructive in reaching a collective agreement in Vienna“, he underlined. On Sunday, Washington ruled “off topicMoscow’s new demands, arguing that the sanctions imposed on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine “have nothing to dowith Iran’s nuclear dossier.