Iran says nuclear consultations with US continuing through EU mediation
Iran says contacts with the European Union continue to plan for the resumption of nuclear negotiations, including discussion on a date and venue for the talks.
Foreign ministry’s new spokesperson Naser Kanani in his first weekly briefing with reporters said that chief negotiator Ali Bagheri-Kani is in touch with European Union’s coordinator of the talks Enrique Mora. He added that if the “other sides are committed to multilateral talks, Iran is also ready to follow that path.”
The latest round of unsuccessful negotiations took place in Doha, Qatar at the end of June.
It was not clear if Kanani’s reference to “multilateral talks” meant that Tehran does not want negotiations just with the West and wants to bring back China and Russia to any future talks.
President Ebrahim Raisi, however, sounded defiant on Wednesday saying Iran will not retreat from its "rightful and logical" stance in talks to revive the 2015 nuclear pact, state media reported.
Almost one year of negotiations in Vienna ended at an impasse in Vienna in March. Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, the participants of the 2015 nuclear deal known as JCPOA, were holding sessions with Iran.
