Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a press conference with the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy at the foreign ministry headquarters in Iran's capital Tehran, June 25, 2022. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
TEHRAN –Iran’s foreign minister described as "positive" the latest round of talks on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal in Doha, according to the Iranian foreign ministry.
Iran is serious about reaching "a good, robust and lasting agreement", which is at hand "if the United States acts realistically", Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in a phone conversation on Wednesday evening, the ministry said on its official website on Thursday.
"We are determined to continue the negotiations until a realistic deal is reached," he added.
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Amir-Abdollahian also thanked Qatar for hosting the negotiations on Tuesday and Wednesday.
We are determined to continue the negotiations until a realistic deal is reached.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Foreign Minister, Iran
For his part, the Qatari foreign minister called the latest EU-brokered indirect talks between Iran and the United States "constructive and positive", promising Doha's efforts to get all sides back to their commitments.
Iran signed the JCPOA with the world powers in July 2015, agreeing to curb its nuclear program in return for the removal of sanctions on the country. However, former US president Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the agreement in May 2018 and reimposed unilateral sanctions on Iran, prompting the latter to drop some of its commitments under the pact.
The Iranian nuclear talks began in April 2021 in Vienna, but were suspended in March this year because of political differences between Tehran and Washington.
‘To keep in touch with EU’
The Iranian foreign ministry said earlier on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic and the EU will remain in contact as always over the next phase of the talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal as the two-day indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington ended in Doha.
"As the talks on the removal of the sanctions continued, intense negotiations were held through the mediation of (EU coordinator) Enrique Mora in Doha," ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani tweeted.
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"Iran presented its views and proposals about the remaining issues and the other side voiced its concerns."
After "two intense days of proximity talks in Doha," Mora wrote on Wednesday that the EU team has yet to achieve the progress they hoped for.