Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar, said that Doha is talking with Tehran and Washington in order to find common ground to return to the Vienna negotiations.
The Qatari foreign minister explained - to Al Jazeera - that the Vienna talks did not fail, and that Qatar's contacts with Iran are not a substitute for it, but rather a helping factor, noting that he discussed with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken the Iranian nuclear negotiations and the prospect of reaching an agreement.
The Qatari minister stressed that Doha wants the parties to return to the nuclear agreement because it constitutes a fundamental pillar of security and peace in the region, warning that the nuclear agreement will open up prospects for broader regional cooperation and dialogue with Iran.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani had said - in previous statements - that the Qatari side had held extensive discussions with the Iranian leadership, and that Doha had expressed its willingness to help and support any agreement between Iran and Western countries within the negotiations of the Iranian nuclear file.
More than a year ago, Iran and the powers included in the 2015 agreement (France, Britain, Germany, Russia and China) began talks in Vienna, indirectly involving the United States, which withdrew unilaterally from the agreement in 2018 under former President Donald Trump.
Talks on the Iranian nuclear file were suspended for several reasons, most notably Tehran's insistence that Washington remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the list of foreign terrorist organizations, while Washington says that the punishment imposed on the guard has nothing to do with the nuclear file, and cannot be discussed within the Vienna negotiations.