Iran Press/ Iran News: Iran's political deputy minister of foreign affairs Ali Bagheri visited on Tuesday the United Arab Emirates to develop the neighborhood policy and examine regional issues.
While in Abu Dhabi, Ali Bagheri wrote in a tweet that in continuation of diplomatic consultations with the regional and transregional parties, he met with the deputy foreign ministers of Germany, France, and England in Abu Dhabi and exchanged views on various issues.
He tweeted earlier that his trip to UAE aimed at consolidating neighborhood-centered policies and pursuing the improvement of regional cooperation and discussing the relevant issues.
Western media reported that Robert Mali, the US Special Representative for Iran Affairs, has recently met with Amir Saeed Irvani, the permanent representative of Iran to the United Nations for several times.
According to Financial Times, the meetings were considered the first direct contact between the Iranian and American forces after the US unilateral withdrawal from the internationally signed nuclear deal, the JCPOA, in 2018.
Iran's international nuclear agreement or the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed between the country and P5+1 countries (Russia, China, UK, Germany, France, and the US) in 2015, to lift the West's sanctions on Iran, but the US scrapped it on May 18, 2018, re-imposing more sanctions on Iran.
According to the agreement Iran was supposed to curb some of its legal nuclear activities and the other side was supposed to lift sanctions on the Iranian nation. The Western parties did not fulfill their commitments to the deal contrary to Iran which began to carry out the obligations and fulfilled them.
As FT says, the meetings focused on the exchange of prisoners between the two countries.
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