Iranian official reiterates: No direct or indirect talks with US

• Author: Elad Benari
• Published date: 05 April 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

"We will negotiate with the Joint Commission and the P4+1 countries, and will communicate them our request and condition for a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)," Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said, according to the Xinhua news agency.

Iran's demand, he added, is that Washington first fulfills all its obligations in the JCPOA, lifts all the sanctions it has imposed on Iran, and then Iran will return to full compliance with the agreement.

If China, Britain, France, Russia and Germany succeed in convincing Washington to lift all the sanctions "by any means they know," Iran will comply, he noted.

The Vienna talks will be "of a purely technical nature" regarding the sanctions that must be lifted, the actions that must be taken by Iran, and the order in which the sanctions must be lifted by the United States and verified by Iran, continued Araqchi.

Araqchi made similar comments on Friday, after a senior US administration official confirmed that the members of the Iran nuclear deal and the United States will visit Vienna in the first effort to kickstart face-to-face negotiations to salvage the pact.

The official said that senior officials from the governments of Iran...