Dubai. October 17th. INTERFAX - Tehran is currently choosing the most suitable model for conducting further negotiations on returning to the atom agreement, IRNA news agency reports with reference to the representative of the Presidium of the Parliament, Nezmoddin Mousavi.
According to Mousavi, Iran will accept the best model to continue negotiations. She will be chosen through consultations with the Iranian administration, parliament, as well as interested departments. Such a model, as noted, will in any case comply with the policy formulated by the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Mousavi noted that in order to adopt a way of conducting negotiations, Iran needs to carefully consider the models used earlier in these consultations.
The US and the EU have repeatedly called on Tehran to return to the negotiating table in Vienna on the Iranian atom soon. Thus, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken noted that if Iran continues to postpone the resumption of negotiations on the JCPOA, Washington will look for other ways to solve the problem.
In early October, the Iranian Foreign Ministry reported that they expected the resumption of nuclear negotiations with world powers by early November.
In 2015, Iran and the six countries - the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany - concluded a nuclear agreement - the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which limited Iran's development of a nuclear program in exchange for a step-by-step lifting of sanctions. Former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA in 2018 and resumed anti-Iranian sanctions, which prompted Tehran to gradually abandon compliance with some of the terms of the deal.
From April to June of this year, Iran and a number of world powers held six rounds of talks in Vienna with the aim of restoring the JCPOA. The United States participated in the consultations indirectly. The sixth round ended on June 20.
Negotiations are currently on pause. Iranian officials have stated that Tehran will be ready to continue negotiations after the inauguration of the new Iranian President Raisi in early August and the formation of a new government.
