Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister in Moscow, August 31, 2022. (MAXIM SHEMETOV / POOL / AFP)
TEHRAN – The Iranian foreign minister urged Washington to prove its determination and goodwill to reach an agreement on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal with realism, the official news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.
Commenting on his meetings with other foreign ministers in New York, Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian noted that the talks with other countries' foreign ministers following the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly were mostly focused on the removal of the sanctions on Tehran
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in an address to Iranian reporters in New York after meeting with other countries' foreign ministers following the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Amir-Abdollahian said over the past few days, the US officials sent a message to him saying that they have the will and goodwill to reach a nuclear agreement.
The minister added that "we told them to demonstrate their determination and goodwill for achieving the agreement with realism."
Commenting on his meetings with other foreign ministers in New York, he noted that the talks were mostly focused on the removal of the sanctions on Tehran.
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Amir-Abdollahian said the Iranian negotiating team and colleagues in New York have held talks with the European Union's representative and other countries that are related to the nuclear negotiations, noting the issue of the removal of the sanctions had been a priority on the agenda.
He stressed that determination and seriousness are required to reach a nuclear agreement, stressing that at present, it is really the American side that should have the courage to make its decision and make it possible to achieve a "good, robust and lasting agreement."
Meanwhile, a senior Iranian lawmaker said that French and Swiss presidents delivered US messages to the Iranian president in New York about the resumption of the nuclear talks and reaching an agreement on the issue, semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
Vahid Jalalzadeh, chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, made the remark in a televised interview commenting on the meetings between Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his French and Swiss counterparts Emmanuel Macron and Ignazio Cassis on the sidelines of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
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Accompanying Raisi on the visit, Jalalzadeh said that Macron expressed interest in the continuation of the negotiations on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal, adding "if Iran adopts certain methods, Europe will be able to persuade the United States to revive the nuclear deal."
Jalalzadeh added that Raisi told Macron that Iran has once suffered losses by trusting the United States within the framework of the deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and Raisi said "do not ask us to sustain another loss."
The Swiss president also conveyed a message from the United States containing Washington's request for a direct bilateral meeting with Tehran, said Jalalzadeh.
The lawmaker added that Raisi announced decisively that Tehran will not withdraw from its positions on the necessity of resolving the safeguards issues with regard to the country's nuclear program in the talks on the JCPOA's revival.
Raisi had been in New York from Monday to Friday to take part in the UNGA and held talks with other participating states' presidents on the sidelines of the main event.
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