Will the US and Iran return to the joint negotiating table? Iran’s President sets clear conditions for the nuclear talks at the United Nations.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has tied talks on Iran’s nuclear program to the prospect of lifting all sanctions against the country.
“The Islamic Republic considers talks useful, the ultimate result of which is the lifting of all suppressive sanctions,” said Raisi on Tuesday in a video message at the general debate at the UN General Assembly in New York. Tehran wants comprehensive political and economic cooperation with the world and does not strive for nuclear weapons: “Nuclear weapons have no place in our defense doctrine and deterrence policy.”
Speaking to the United States, Raisi said that the policy of “maximum tyranny” with sanctions continued under President Joe Biden: “We do not trust the promises of the US government.” All parties would have to adhere to the 2015 nuclear deal. The attack on the US Capitol on January 6th and the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan had shown that the “hegemonic system” of the United States had failed.
The negotiations that started again in Vienna in April to rescue the nuclear deal with Iran were interrupted after the presidential election in June and the change of government in Tehran. China, Germany, France, Great Britain and Russia are trying to get the US back to the 2015 agreement. At the same time, Iran should again comply with the conditions it has been violating since the US left the country. The then US President Donald Trump terminated the agreement in 2018.
Iran’s President Raisi has stressed several times that Iran wants to continue negotiations. However, the new Iranian delegation has still not been determined. So far, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has headed the delegation. However, he was replaced last week by hardliner Ali Bagheri, a critic of the deal.
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