Iranian Foreign Minister Ehud Olmert has called on the government of Joe Biden to lift economic sanctions on his country and abandon the policy of “maximum pressure” adopted by former President Donald Trump to increase the chances of a deal on Iran’s nuclear program.
“The most important thing is that the economic sanctions must be lifted effectively,” said Hussein Amir-Abdollahian during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The most important thing is to abandon the policy of maximum pressure of the Trump era.”
“You have to prove to us that you are different from President Trump,” he insisted.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (CSTO), as the 2015 agreement calls for drastic restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions, is collapsing following the unilateral withdrawal in 2018 of US President Donald Trump.
The election of Joe Biden to the White House has allowed the resumption of efforts to revive the agreement, but negotiations have stalled for two months, although a draft text appeared to be possible.
“The chances of the talks succeeding are lower than the chances of failure,” US negotiator Rob Maley said on Wednesday, citing “excessive demands from Iran on which we will not give in.”
The US Treasury Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions against a network backed by the Revolutionary Guards and Russia, which facilitated the export of hundreds of millions of dollars of Iranian oil in violation of US sanctions.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibadeh described them today as “a continuation of the same policy that failed” adopted by Trump, and that he saw “an indication of the US government’s malice towards the Iranian people.”
“The Islamic Republic reserves the right to react decisively and appropriately to these measures, in accordance with the principles of international law,” it said in a statement.
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