Iran and South Korea have planned to start negotiations next month in Seoul to devise a mechanism as to how to release Iranian funds frozen due to US sanctions.
Iranian Labour News Agency
Iran and South Korea have planned to start negotiations next month in Seoul to devise a mechanism as to how to release Iranian funds frozen due to US sanctions.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi discussed the need for lifting of anti-Iran sanctions, verification and valid guarantees for proper implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in a phone conversation with his French President Emanuel Macron on Saturday night.
World powers and Iran will gather in Vienna on Monday to try to salvage their 2015 nuclear deal, but with Tehran sticking to its tough stance and increasingly Western powers frustrated, hopes for progress seem slim.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said his country will insist on lifting US sanctions of Iran and full resumption of the JCPOA.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh said the US President Joe Biden should stop repeating the maximum defeat suffered by his predecessor Donald Trump by effectively and verifiably lifting sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message reiterated the fact that lifting sanctions by the US is a legal and moral obligation not negotiating leverage.
Iranians Deserve Free COVID-19 Vaccines. Chairman of Iran-Switzerland Joint Chamber of Commerce Sharif Nezam-Mafi believes if the private sector is to import COVID-19 vaccines, they should hand over the vaccines to the Health Ministry for its distribution because it will reveal the humanitarian and nationalist feelings.
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan insisted that Washington would not lift sanctions until it is assured of Iran's adherence to its core nuclear obligations.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that the Israeli Zionist regime aims to take revenge on Iran for successful lifting the sanctions.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman says Iran-US relations only would depend on lifting sanctions completely.