China News Agency, Brussels, October 27 (Reporter De Yongjian) Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri-Kani, who is visiting in Brussels, met with EU officials on the 27th. Bagheri-Kani announced after the meeting that Iran agreed. The Iranian nuclear talks will be resumed before the end of November this year.

　　At the EU headquarters in Brussels that day, Bagheri-Kani held a closed-door meeting with Deputy Secretary-General Mora of the European Union’s External Action Agency to discuss the prospect of resuming the Iranian nuclear talks.

From April to June this year, under the auspices of Mora, the relevant parties to the Iran nuclear agreement held several rounds of meetings in Vienna, the Austrian capital, to discuss the issue of the United States and Iran's resumption of compliance. Since then, with the change of the Iranian government, the Iranian nuclear negotiations have not been resumed.

　　On the afternoon of the 27th, Brussels time, Bagheri-Kani posted on his Twitter account, stating that he had had a "very serious and constructive dialogue" with Mora, and the two sides "agree to start negotiations before the end of November this year", the specific date It will be announced next week.

　　As of press time, the EU External Action Agency has not issued a statement on the meeting between Mora and Bagheri-Kani.

In accordance with past practices, if the parties involved in the Iran nuclear agreement finalize the date of the meeting, the EU External Action Agency will issue an announcement on the meeting.

　　At the meeting held from April to June this year, because the United States had withdrawn from the Iran nuclear agreement and Iran refused to have direct dialogue with the United States, the US representative did not attend the meeting. Other parties involved in the Iranian nuclear agreement have contacted and negotiated.

　　In July 2015, Iran reached an Iran nuclear agreement with the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, and Germany. Iran promised to limit its nuclear program and the international community lifted sanctions against Iran. In May 2018, the then-U.S. Trump administration announced that It withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement, and then restarted and added a series of sanctions against Iran; since May 2019, Iran has gradually suspended the implementation of some provisions of the Iran nuclear agreement, but promised that the measures taken are "reversible."

　　Regarding the current position of the Iranian government, Bagheri-Kani stated on the eve of his visit to Brussels that Iran is determined to continue participating in the Iranian nuclear negotiations, but that the negotiations should "fully and effectively" lift sanctions against Iran and provide "a possibility for no more betrayal of promises." He also pointed out that the U.S. policy of extreme pressure on Iran will not help to remove obstacles to negotiations, but will make the negotiations more complicated. He called on the negotiating partners to ask the U.S. to abandon its previous "malicious policies."

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