A new round of negotiations between Iran and the European troika on the Iranian nuclear program will begin at the end of January 2025, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Baghai said.
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“A new round of negotiations between Iran and three European countries will probably take place in mid-January. At the previous round, it was decided that these negotiations would continue. We have said earlier that these are (large-scale) negotiations, and (not just negotiations) to conclude deals, various issues are discussed at them, including nuclear issues,” the official Telegram channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports Bagai’s words.
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Negotiations on the nuclear program between Iran and the Eurotroika took place on November 29 in Geneva after a two-year break. Assistant to the Iranian Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi led the Iranian delegation at the negotiations. According to the Iranian government, they will continue in the near future. A week earlier, the anti-Iranian resolution of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), initiated by Great Britain, Germany, France and the United States, was adopted without taking into account the results of the business trip of the agency’s director general Rafael Grossi to Iran.
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On November 14-15, Iran was visited by the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi. The purpose of his visit was negotiations with the country’s leadership and inspection of the Iranian nuclear program facilities in Fordo and Netenz for a subsequent decision on the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian Nuclear Program (JCPOA).
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, during negotiations with Grossi, said that Tehran has not created and will not create nuclear weapons.
In 2015, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, the US, France and Iran entered into a nuclear deal that included lifting sanctions in exchange for curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. Under the Trump presidency, the United States withdrew from the JCPOA in May 2018 and restored sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a gradual reduction in its obligations under the agreement, abandoning, in particular, restrictions on nuclear research and the level of uranium enrichment.
