TEHERAN (dpa-AFX) – Iran is not ruling out new nuclear talks at the level of foreign ministers during the UN general assembly next week in New York. The Foreign Ministry in Tehran announced on Sunday that head of department Hussein Amirabdollahian would discuss the topic with colleagues from Great Britain, France and Germany on the sidelines of the meeting. Whether there will be a conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken remained open. The new President Ebrahim Raisi is not coming to New York in person, but will be connected by video for his speech to the United Nations.
The negotiations that started again in Vienna in April to rescue the nuclear deal with Iran were interrupted after the presidential election in June and the change of government in Tehran. China, Germany, France, Great Britain and Russia are trying to get the US back to the 2015 agreement. At the same time, Iran should again comply with the conditions it has violated since the US left the country. The then US President Donald Trump terminated the agreement in 2018.
Iran’s President Raisi has stressed several times that Iran wants to continue negotiations. However, the new Iranian delegation has still not been determined. So far, Deputy Minister Abbas Araghchi has headed the delegation. However, he was replaced last week by hardliner Ali Bagheri, a critic of the deal./str/fmb/DP/nas
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