Iran Press/ Iran News: Announcing that the Iranian Foreign Minister will leave for Moscow tomorrow, Saeed Khatibzadeh added: "The stalemate in the Vienna talks, some of which have referred to it as the end of the talks, will be short. It was occurred due to the request of the joint commission coordinator. Now we are waiting to hear the US answer."
In answer to a question about third-party interference in the talks as a reason for the suspension of the negotiations, Khatibzadeh noted, "We do not have a third party in the JCPOA."
"What happened in Vienna was to ensure the verifiable return of the United States to the agreement and its commitments to the deal," Spokesman of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs highlighted.
Khatibzadeh called the US government's new demands in the talks wrong, adding: "The Vienna talks reflect the unconstructive behavior of the United States in the past."
"The remaining issues between Iran and the United States require political decisions in Washington that have not yet been announced to us, and we will return to Vienna whenever they are announced," the diplomat added.
"The Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian to visit Lebanon and some other countries in the region soon," Khatibzadeh Said.
Iran to Iraq: Once and for all, end presence of Israel on Iraqi soil
Iran says it can tolerate no means that one of its neighbors with which it has deep ties and interaction becomes the center of threats to its territory.
A dozen ballistic Iranian missiles struck Iraq's northern Kurdish regional capital Erbil on Sunday, targeting advanced Israeli Mossad training centers.
Recently, Israel used this base to invade Iranian positions.
In his weekly press conference on Monday, the Spokesman of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Israeli regime has repeatedly created insecurity inside Iraq, pointed to the congregation of anti-Revolutionary elements and terrorist groups in Kurdistan region.
Saeed Khatibzadeh noted that Iran had time and again recalled to the Iraqi government that it could not tolerate acts of sabotage and insecurity in the vicinity of its borders, either by the Israeli regime or by the anti-Revolutionary groups.
Iran expects the Iraqi central government to end the situation once and for all and not allow its borders to be abused, he added.
The Spokesman of Iran's Ministry then addressed the Israeli regime: "The occupying regime in al-Quds must know that we have intelligence dominance about all the points of is presence."
The missile operation of Iran came days after Israel's missile attack on Syria last Monday, which led to the martyrdom of two Iranian military advisors and left some material damage.
Tehran has strongly condemned Israel's recent, saying the regime's crime "will not go unpunished."
Iran in close contact with neighbor Azerbaijan
Saeed Khatibzadeh said in response to Iran Press about Tehran-Baku ties: "In the past few months, we had close contacts with Azerbaijan and held a joint commission and signed an MoU."
He said a memorandum of understanding was signed between Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan on the Zangezur region.
During the war, Iran had given access to Azerbaijani citizens to cross the border and access Nakhchivan, Khatibzadeh said and went on: "After the war of entering the border from closer places is on the agenda. If we can provide the appropriate infrastructure, we will have new facilities in the transit route."
Elsewhere he touched on the pause in the Vienna talks and said that the responsibility of the current situation lies with the United States: "If the United States responds today, we can return to Vienna."
He further said that Russia's request must be discussed in a joint commission. Russia's approach has been constructive and has been the closest and most supportive among negotiators in Vienna over the past 11 months.
Russia has announced that the US-imposed sanctions on Moscow over its involvement in Ukraine will hinder the Vienna talks, so it has asked Washington for written assurances that the sanctions will not prevent Russian-Iranian cooperation and the revival of Iran's international deal or the JCPOA.
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, but the US scrapped it on May 18, 2018, re-imposing more sanctions on Iran.
205
Read more:
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says Vienna talks still continue
US, West responsible for possible failure of Vienna talks
