FM: Iran ‘ready’ to negotiate last year’s draft agreement on JCPOA revival

Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has expressed the Islamic Republic’s readiness to negotiate last year’s draft agreement aimed at salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and removing illegal US sanctions.

According to Press TV, he made the remark at a meeting of the Foreign Ministry’s senior officials with a group of university professors of political science and international relations in the capital Tehran on Tuesday.

Amir-Abdollahian underscored the current administration’s efforts to neutralize Western-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic while keeping the window open for negotiations to remove the illegal US bans.

“Today, we are not at the point of reaching a temporary agreement, and what took place was the dignified reclamation of the Iranian nation’s assets in two phases from the United Kingdom and South Korea,” the top Iranian diplomat said, referring to the recent release of the Islamic Republic’s frozen funds in the two countries.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to negotiate the September [draft] document for the realization of the rights of the Iranian nation and the removal of sanctions, while maintaining its red lines,” he added.

But Iran has not stopped there and at the same time, it has seriously put the "neutralization of sanctions" on the agenda, he added. 

Amir-Abdollahian also pointed to Iran’s growing cooperation with regional and international organizations, saying, “The membership of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS is a big step that bespeaks the high status and capacities of the Islamic Republic among the world's emerging economies.”

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