China News Service, March 15 (Xinhua) According to a comprehensive report, the negotiations between the parties to the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue are currently on hold. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Khatibzad said on the 14th local time that some key and unresolved issues in the Iranian nuclear negotiations are on hold. , requires the United States to make a decision.
"At present, the Iranian nuclear talks are on hold," Khatibzad said at a press conference on the 14th. "We have not announced an agreement because there are some key and unresolved issues that require the United States to make a decision."
Khatibzad also said that the suspension of negotiations between the parties to the comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear issue does not mean a deadlock, and the negotiations are still going on at different levels.
Contacts have been maintained between the foreign ministers and senior negotiators of the countries concerned.
He also stressed that all parties must seek collective decisions and consensus to push for a good deal in the Iran nuclear negotiations.
According to Agence France-Presse news, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on the 14th that Iranian Foreign Minister Abdullahyan will travel to Moscow, Russia on the 15th to discuss the Iran nuclear deal with Russia.
In July 2015, Iran reached a nuclear deal with the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.
In May 2018, the U.S. government unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, 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 deal, but promised that the measures taken are "reversible".
The parties involved in the Iran nuclear deal will start negotiations in Vienna, Austria in April 2021 to discuss the resumption of compliance between the United States and Iran, and the United States indirectly participates in the negotiations.
The eighth round of negotiations was launched in Vienna on December 27, 2021.
On March 11 this year, Borrell, the EU's high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, announced that negotiations in Vienna had been suspended due to "external factors".