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A senior Russian diplomat says the recent decision made collectively by Iran and other parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement to resume talks later this month will pave the way for the lifting of the sanctions that the US imposed on Iran after leaving the deal and Tehran’s return to full compliance.
According to reports, in a post on his Twitter account on Thursday, Russian Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said Iran and the P4+1 group of countries agreed to resume talks on the restoration of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), on November 29.
“This long-awaited collective decision opens the way to #US #sanctions lifting and return of #Iran to full implementation of nuclear provisions of 2015 deal,” he tweeted.
Deputy Foreign Minister and top negotiator Ali Baqeri first announced via Twitter on Wednesday that he had spoken with European Union Deputy Secretary General and Political Director Enrique Mora, and that the two “agreed to start the negotiations aiming at removal of unlawful & inhumane sanctions on 29 November in Vienna.”
The European Union, which acted as the coordinator for the talks that led to the conclusion of the nuclear deal, also confirmed the news and said the Joint Commission of the JCPOA would convene in a “physical format” in the Austrian capital and be chaired by Mora, on behalf of the EU High Representative Josep Borrell.
In another post, Ulyanov responded to a tweet about the possibility of Donald Trump’s re-election as American president in 2024 and Washington’s second pullout from the deal.
The Russian administration said any new US administration must learn from the “strategic mistakes” of the past, referring to Trump’s so-called ‘maximum pressure’ policy on Iran.
“Isn’t it clear that the maximum pressure resulted in an enormous advancement of the Iranian nuclear programme? Is there any irresponsible politician in the US to repeat this catastrophic exercise?” the senior Russian diplomat tweeted.
As the date has been set for the resumption of the talks, the Russian envoy in Vienna said his country remains hopeful and in response to Newsweek’s question about Moscow’s mood into what would be the seventh round of the negotiations, he shared a Russian proverb.
“In Russia we have a saying which can be translated into English as: the hope is the last to die,” Ulyanov wrote. “I believe it is too early to be pessimistic.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday that Moscow fully supports the idea of resuming the implementation of the JCPOA in the form it was signed and later approved by the United Nations, without “any additions or exemptions.”
