“We hope that it will help prevent a further escalation of the crisis around the JCPOA and consolidate the participating countries around the common task of preserving the nuclear deal. We urge the countries of the Eurotroika and the EU coordinators of the JCPOA to focus on this, ”the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang expressed support for the PRC's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) for the Iranian nuclear program and called it a key factor preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.