Iran Press/ Europe: "Russia is determined and firmly committed to doing its part of the process of implementing the JCPOA after it gets restored to its initial parameters," Sergey Ryabkov said.
Ryabkov while expressing Moscow’s readiness to implement the JCPOA if it is revived, stated that Iran has announced that it is ready to return to the implementation of the nuclear agreement as soon as the sanctions are lifted.
The Russian news agency TASS news agency reported that Ryabkov, in response to a question related to the upcoming visit of the President of the United States of America to the West Asian region, Ryabkov said that he will also mention the nuclear issue of Iran during this visit.
"I think that Iran’s nuclear program and all things related to it will definitely be on his agenda, and security issues in the Persian Gulf region will also be discussed," he added.
At the same time, he expressed doubts about Washington’s readiness to admit that the United States has not changed the path of maximum pressure against Iran, adding that Tehran has declared its readiness to fully implement the nuclear agreement.
Ryabkov said: "To what extent is the American government willing to admit that it has not yet abandoned what it inherited from the Trump administration, which is called maximum pressure against Iran, and towards full compliance with the provisions of Council Resolution 2231 UN Security has not moved. I do not intend to judge."
Ryabkov further emphasized the necessity of implementing the JCPOA and said that after the revival of the nuclear deal, Russia is determined to play its part in the process of revitalizing the JCPOA.
Despite the fact that the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, came to office with the promise of returning to the JCPOA and repeatedly admitted the failure of the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” policy against Iran, he has not only taken concrete steps to revive the JCPOA and cancel unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran. He didn’t, but he always puts the ball in Iran’s court and says that Iran should try to revive the nuclear deal.
The United States and its western allies have imposed stringent sanctions on both Iran and Russia, which have limited their ability to export their energy to outside markets. Notably, in 2015, Iran and global powers reached an agreement on the nuclear deal, in which Tehran committed to significantly lower its uranium enrichment in exchange for the removal of economic sanctions. However, in 2018, then-US President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew from the agreement, re-imposing sanctions against Iran.
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