The US Secretary of State Department spokesman, Ned Price

The US Secretary of State Department spokesman announced the readiness of his country to engage in "meaningful talks" with Iran over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Iran PressAmerica: In a press briefing on Thursday, Ned Price said the US was ready to find a mutual return to the JCPOA and a mutual return to those commitments. 

Price answering a question about the Politico report on the Biden administration plans for a new proposal to start talks 'as early as this week', said: "We are ready to pursue a joint return to compliance with the JCPOA. We have been open that we are talking with our partners in the P5+1 and elsewhere about the best way to achieve this."

"Secretary Blinken met several of his counterparts at the NATO summit in Brussels, where Iran was a topic of discussion. We had a meeting with the E3 in the multilateral format last week as well. And those discussions have been ongoing about the best way to achieve that return to compliance, including through a series of initial and mutual steps," US secretary of state spokesman added.

Price said: "We’ve been looking at options for doing so, including with indirect conversations with our European partners. We’re not going to comment on the details of our diplomatic conversations."

He claimed that Washington's "goal" is that Iran can’t produce or acquire or obtain a nuclear weapon.

Meanwhile, The Spokesman of Iran's Government, Ali Rabie on Tuesday in his weekly press conference said that Iran sees no necessity for contact with the US.

Ali Rabiei rejected any contact between Iran and the US, saying the meeting with the US was neither of profit nor necessity. 

The Spokesman of Iran's Government recalled that the positions of the new US President Joe Biden before and after the election did not change and that he was pursuing his predecessor's policy of maximum pressure on Iran.

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