TEHRAN —
Iran on Tuesday said it still believes that negotiations can succeed to revive
the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, despite a recent rebuke from the UN
nuclear watchdog.
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Tehran last week
condemned as “unconstructive” a move by the
International Atomic Energy Agency to censure the country for failure to cooperate over its nuclear program.
It also
disconnected some of its cameras at nuclear sites, a move the IAEA warned could
deal a “fatal blow” to negotiations to revive the nuclear deal.
“We believe
negotiations and diplomacy are the best ways to reach the final point of the
agreement,”
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said during a
joint press conference with his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari in
Tehran.
Talks began in
April last year to bring the US back into that landmark agreement, after then
president Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 and left it hanging by a thread.
The negotiations
also aim to lift sanctions on Iran and bring it back into compliance with
nuclear commitments it made to world powers as part of the deal.
But the
ever-delicate dialogue has been stalled since March.
The IAEA’s Board of
Governors on Wednesday adopted a resolution censuring Iran for failing to
adequately explain the previous discovery of traces of enriched uranium at
three sites which Tehran had not declared as having hosted nuclear activities.
Amir-Abdollahian said that prior to the IAEA’s move,
Tehran had put forward a new initiative that the US had accepted, adding that
Washington nonetheless moved to submit the resolution censuring Iran.
But the Islamic
republic would not abandon negotiations, he said, adding that “contacts in the
diplomatic fields will continue” through the European Union.
Iran “will not
distance itself from ... diplomacy and negotiations to reach a good, strong and
lasting agreement,” Amir-Abdollahian noted.
The deal, known
formally as the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), gave Iran sanctions
relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program to guarantee that it could
not develop a nuclear weapon — something Tehran has always denied wanting to
do.
But the US
withdrawal in 2018 prompted Iran to begin rolling back on its own commitments
under the pact.
Iran’s foreign
ministry spokesman
Saeed Khatibzadeh on Monday said all the measures the
country has taken to scale back on its obligations under the accord are
“reversible”.
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