Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said that if the 5 + 1 group returns to its commitments under the nuclear deal, Iran will return to work with all of its commitments.

Rouhani stressed during his meeting with foreign diplomats in Iran that whoever withdrew from the nuclear agreement first is the one who must take the first step to return to it, and that Iran has not yet witnessed any realistic action by the Biden administration regarding sanctions.

Rouhani stressed that the only solution to the region's problems is through dialogue between its countries, and that foreign interference in the region harms security and stability, as he put it.

For his part, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, said that the suspension of the additional protocol is linked to the decision that Washington and European countries will take.

Salehi stressed that Iran will stop implementing this protocol if the rest of the parties do not implement their obligations in the nuclear deal.

He added that cooperation with Russia is still continuing to build nuclear reactors in Bushehr.

And US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that his country would return to the nuclear agreement with Iran if Tehran abided by its obligations contained in the agreement.

Stronger and longer agreement

In an interview with CNN, Blinken explained that if Iran abides by these pledges, Washington will work with its allies to reach a stronger and longer agreement, in addition to addressing other issues such as Iran's missiles and its "destabilizing behavior in the region." Limit described.

He added, "The problem we are facing in recent months is that Iran has successively lifted restrictions that were being verified under the agreement from which we withdrew ... and the result is that it is closer to producing fissile materials that are used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons more than ever before."

Informed sources said that Washington is discussing a set of ideas on how to revive the nuclear deal, including an option in which the two sides take small steps without a full commitment to buy time.

This option may involve Washington providing economic concessions to Tehran worth less than the sanctions relief stipulated in the 2015 agreement, in exchange for Iran halting or perhaps reversing its violations of the agreement.

The sources emphasized that US President Joe Biden has not decided his policy yet, and his declared position is that Iran will resume its full commitment to the agreement before the United States does so.

Another source said that if the Biden administration concludes that negotiating a full return to the agreement will take a long time, it may adopt a more moderate approach.

This source added, "Should they try to ease at least some of the sanctions imposed on Iran and persuade it to agree to stop and perhaps backtrack on some of its nuclear (steps)?"

When Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, saying he had failed to curb Tehran's ballistic missile program and support its proxies in the region, he re-imposed stifling sanctions on the Iranian economy.

In response, Tehran backed away from the agreement's main restrictions, by enriching uranium to a purity of 20%, which exceeds the limit set by the agreement, which is 3.67%, but is less than the 90% needed to make weapons.

Iran also increased its stockpile of low-enriched uranium and used sophisticated centrifuges.