A bill on Tehran's withdrawal from talks on restoring the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran's nuclear program has been submitted to the Majlis (parliament) of the republic. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said this on Monday in an interview with Al Jazeera TV.
"There is a bill in parliament to end negotiations on the nuclear deal, so the door for dialogue may close," he said. At the same time, the minister stressed that Iran remains committed to cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) within the framework of agreements reached earlier this month between Director-General Raphael Grossi and the authorities of the republic.
Grossi arrived in Tehran March 3 after reports of traces of uranium enriched to 84 percent at the country's nuclear facilities. Grossi held two rounds of talks with Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), and met with President Ebrahim Raisi and the foreign minister. A joint statement issued by the IAEA and the AEOI following the visit noted Iran's intention to allow the agency to inspect and monitor and Tehran's willingness to grant access to three nuclear facilities.
The JCPOA was signed with Iran in 2015 to address the crisis over its nuclear developments by the permanent UN Security Council Five and Germany. Previous US President Donald Trump decided in 2018 to withdraw from the arrangement. Current US leader Joe Biden has repeatedly signaled a willingness to bring Washington back into the nuclear agreement, but in the spring of 2022 negotiations to reinstate the JCPOA effectively ceased due to deteriorating relations between the US and Iran.
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Based on materials from TASS