Two days before the date of resuming negotiations on the nuclear agreement in Vienna, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said today, Saturday, that his country has created all the appropriate conditions to reach a "good and quick" agreement if all parties abide by their commitments.

Meanwhile, the Iranian news agency "IRNA" reported that Ali Bagheri, Assistant Foreign Minister for Political Affairs, headed an Iranian delegation to the Austrian capital, Vienna, to participate in the seventh round of talks to revive the nuclear agreement.

For his part, the Iranian Foreign Minister affirmed that his country has several options, but it chose to negotiate, and will seriously pursue it to reach an agreement.

"Our position is clear and explicit regarding the Vienna negotiations, which is that the interests and rights of the Iranian people must be guaranteed...Sanctions must be lifted, and we hope that we can take basic and successful steps during these talks," Abdullahian said.

"We are not idly by and we have several options, but we chose to negotiate... We are serious about negotiations and reaching an agreement, and we hope to witness a similar position from the Western parties," he added.

"We assured these countries that we are a pragmatic government and we are striving to achieve results," he added.

The Iranian Foreign Minister's statements came after contacts and diplomatic moves, most notably his phone call with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, on Friday.

Indirect talks between the United States and Iran with the participation of major powers - which will resume on Monday - aim to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement. Washington withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and re-imposed severe sanctions on Iran.

Karaj facility

With the preparation for the resumption of negotiations, a dispute emerged over Iran's Karaj facility, which is specialized in manufacturing parts for advanced centrifuges that enrich uranium, as Tehran rejected US threats about it.

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, stressed that the facility is linked to the nuclear agreement, and "those who withdrew from the agreement have no right to express their opinion on it."

Reuters quoted a US statement - addressed to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency - threatening Washington to confront Iran at the agency next month if it did not show greater cooperation.

The statement referred, in particular, to the re-installation of the IAEA's cameras at the Karaj facility.

And the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said - last Wednesday - after his visit to Tehran that no progress has been made on a number of issues, the most urgent of which is the issue of access to a workshop in the "Tisa" complex in Karaj, two months after Iran made promises to allow it.

The workshop specializes in the manufacture of parts for centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium, and it appears that it was subjected to a sabotage process last June, which destroyed one of 4 cameras belonging to the International Atomic Energy Agency there.

Iran later removed all cameras.

Furthermore, the footage captured by the destroyed camera is missing.

On the other hand, the Commander of the Iranian Navy, Admiral Shahram Irani, said that the sanctions imposed on the military sector will not affect the navy, as it can produce ships of all sizes.

He stressed that his forces are ready to respond to any threats to the country and that "the lines of defense will not be limited to the Iranian borders."

Regarding the security of navigation, Admiral Irani said that the army navy protects and escorts ships in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.