Iran Press/Europe: The commission is chaired by Iran deputy foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Secretary-General of the European External Action Service Helga Schmidt in Vienna.
Araghchi, who has visited previously China and Japan, arrived in Vienna last night to attend the meeting.
The fourth step to cut Iran's commitments in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) commenced from a month ago with the order of Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian President, to feed gas into the centrifuges in Frodow's facilities and enrichment by 4.5 % in the facility.
Some Western media have suggested that today's Vienna summit may be held in a different atmosphere than previous ones; however, Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters the last Wednesday that nothing ‘strange’ is going to happen in the meeting. “These are periodic meetings and we will talk about issues, which we have already pointed out in letters, and Europeans will also give their own viewpoints; I don’t think any strange thing would happen in this meeting,” said Zarif.
In recent days, the E3, France, Germany and the United Kingdom sent a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in which the three European signatories to the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) made the allegation that Iran’s ballistic missile activity is “inconsistent” with the call in a council resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
In response, Iranian Foreign Minister in a tweet stated that the latest E3 letter to UNSG on Iran's missiles is a desperate falsehood to cover up their miserable incompetence in fulfilling a bare minimum of their own JCPOA obligations.
Zarif urged Britain, France, and Germany not to bow to 'US bullying'.
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