TEHRAN – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi a meeting of the Friday prayers leaders on Tuesday said that if the other parties engaged in talks with Iran on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal behave rationally and logically, a final result in the negotiations will be achievable.

Addressing the meeting, Raisi said Iran has never bowed out of the negotiation aimed at lifting the sanctions and saving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The president lashed out at the Western parties for initiating an anti-Iran resolution at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors amid the course of the negotiations, saying such a move created a crisis in the talks.

In order for the talks to yield results, the other side needs to show resolve, he underlined.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran’s stance is logical and rational, and it is obvious that if the other side behaves logically and rationally as well, the negotiations will yield results,” the president stated.

 

Spokesperson Calls on U.S. to Prove ‘Good Faith’

 

In a tweet on Tuesday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kan’ani Iran has called on the United States to abandon its blame game over the revival of the 2015 nuclear accord, asserting that Tehran remains a member of the deal, unlike Washington which unilaterally withdrew from it four years ago.

Kan’ani said the party that needs to prove its “good faith” in the ongoing talks aimed at restoration of the landmark deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and lifting of sanctions, is the U.S.

“Iran has been and still remains a JCPOA member,” he wrote. “The party that needs to prove ‘good faith’ and ‘seriousness’ to ‘re-enter’ the deal is the U.S.”

He hastened to add that Iran remains “committed to reach a good, strong and lasting agreement”, which “guarantees JCPOA-envisioned benefits” for the country while reiterating that the onus lies on the U.S.

In July 2015, Iran signed the nuclear deal, formally known as the

Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with world powers, agreeing to limit its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. However, former U.S. president Donald Trump withdrew Washington from the agreement in May 2018 and re-imposed unilateral sanctions on Tehran, prompting the latter to abandon some of the pact’s commitments.
The talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal began in Vienna in April 2021 but were suspended in March of this year due to political differences between Tehran and Washington.
The talks resumed in late June in Qatar’s capital, Doha, after a three-month hiatus, but failed to resolve the differences.