Iran to meet with EU officials in Brussels in the coming weeks

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Iran to meet with EU officials in Brussels in the coming weeks

This may include adverts from us and 3 rd parties based on our understanding. The talks, designed to see the US return to the accord following former President Donald Trump s withdraw, have so far seen six rounds of negotiations end in little progress. One senior EU diplomat, speaking under the condition of confidentiality, told Politico: They are not ready for engaging in Vienna. Iran has committed to meeting senior EU officials in Brussels in the coming weeks in order to discuss details of the last round of talks which ended on June 6. Part of the delay has been a change of administration in Iran, with the Rouhani government replaced by Ebrahim Raisi's Conservative government. Speaking about the upcoming meeting in Brussels, the unnamed diplomat went on to say: It s not a bad idea that we sit down in a long meeting with the new delegation and we go through all of the texts and clarify differently the questions with the new delegation. Iran has repeatedly told that it does want talks to resume, and has agreed to return to JCPOA terms and conditions as soon as the United States lifts all unilateral sanctions placed on Iran by the Trump regime. Speaking of the conditions, Saeed Khatibzadeh, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said: We have never set a precondition for the US, because the US is not a party to the JCPOA. What we have mentioned relates to the return of JCPOA and the main goal is to make sure that all sanctions will be lifted on Iran, so that Washington would not make a mockery of the world. US imposed sanctions, the assassination of top Iranian commander, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani and threats of force by Iranian allies has sown the seeds of distrust amongst Iranian policy makers, government and people A tri-lateral meeting between Israel and Tel-Aviv last week warned Iran that it would consider all options should the country not adhere to the JCPOA talks. Ni Israel and United Arab Emirates are signatory members of JCPOA.

At the same meeting, US Secretary of State said: We are getting near to a point at which returning to compliance with JCPOA will not in and of itself recapture the benefits of the JCPOA, because Iran has been using this time to advance its nuclear program in a variety of ways. Iran has stated it can reverse all advancements in days if the United States lift sanctions and resume to the deal. In addition, Iran has vehemently denied its nuclear program is solely for civilian use, declaring it is for military purposes and has been a signatory member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT since 1968.