Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Monday the upcoming visit of a delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Tehran to continue nuclear negotiations.
An Iranian delegation has recently traveled to Vienna to negotiate with the IAEA and both sides will continue the process in Tehran, explained an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Naser Kanaani, in statements reported by the official Iranian news agency, IRNA.
«Some countries are trying to damage the collaboration between Iran and the IAEA,» Kanaani denounced, while stressing that Tehran will continue its «constructive relations» with the international body regarding the Safeguards Agreements.
On the other hand, he regretted the «unconstructive» position and the «hasty behavior» of the European countries represented in the negotiations, the United Kingdom, France and Germany, whom he urged to «take a step towards diplomacy».
He therefore called on the Europeans to «avoid instrumentalizing the issue of human rights» in reference to the recent criticism of the repression of the wave of protests unleashed in Iran following the death of a woman after being arrested in Tehran for not wearing the veil properly.
The United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and Iran are negotiating to reinstate the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has announced the withdrawal of its commitments on several of the deal’s points after the United States unilaterally pulled out of the pact in 2018, although Tehran has defended that these steps can be reversed if Washington withdraws sanctions and returns to the agreement.
