Macron tells Iran’s Raisi nuclear talks need to speed up
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Representatives from Iran, left, and the United Kingdom, right, attend a meeting on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal on Dec. 3. (E.U. Delegation in Vienna/AFP/Getty Images)
Macron tells Iran’s Raisi nuclear talks need to speed up
Reuters- Jan 30th 2022
PARIS, Jan 30 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron has told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi that a deal lifting sanctions on Iran in return for curbs on its nuclear activities is still possible but talks need to accelerate, Macron’s office said on Sunday.
France, Germany and Britain, known as E3, and the United States are trying to save the 2015 Vienna agreement with Iran but Western diplomats have said negotiations, which have been in their eighth round since Dec. 27, were moving too slowly.
Iran has rejected any deadline imposed by Western powers.
“The President of the Republic reiterated his conviction that a diplomatic solution is possible and imperative, and stressed that any agreement will require clear and sufficient commitments from all the parties,” the Elysee palace said in a statement after a telephone call with Raisi on Saturday.
“Several months after the resumption of negotiations in Vienna, he insisted on the need to accelerate in order to quickly achieve tangible progress in this framework,” it added.
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