Russia, China and Iran call for ending sanctions against Iran and resume nuclear talks
Representatives of China, Russia and Iran called for an end to sanctions on Iran’s rapidly moving nuclear program and conduct cross-border negotiations on the issue.
Negotiations are the latest attempt to resolve the matter and follow US President Donald Trump Write to Iran’s supreme leader Trying to start the conversation.
The letter has not been published as Trump imposed new sanctions on Iran, part of his “maximum pressure” campaign that has the possibility of military action, while stressing that he still believes a new deal can be reached.
China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu read from the joint statement that the three countries “emphasize the need to terminate all illegal unilateral sanctions”, and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov Sergey Alexeevich and Iranian Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibababadi read a joint statement.
“These three countries reaffirm that political and diplomatic participation and dialogue based on the principle of mutual respect remains the only viable and practical option in this regard,” Ma reads.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will meet with representatives later that day.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei mocked Trump, saying he was not interested in talks with the “bullying government”, although Iranian officials have raised conflicting signals about the possibility of negotiations. Trump sent a letter to Khamenei in 2019 that had no significant impact on the rise in tensions.
China and Russia are both permanent members of the UN Security Council, as well as France and the UK, joining Germany and the EU in the initial Iran nuclear agreement preliminary framework agreement in 2015. Trump withdrew from the U.S. deal in 2018a year of campaigns for attacks and tensions in the wider Middle East.
China and Russia have particularly close ties with Iran through energy transactions. Iran provides bomb drones to Russia In the war with Ukraine.
They are also seen as sharing a common interest in reducing the role of the United States and other liberal democracies in determining the world events in order to support their own highly authoritarian institutions.
Iran insists that its nuclear program is peaceful. However, its officials are increasingly threatening to pursue nuclear weapons. Iran is now enriching uranium to nearly 60% weapon level, the only country in the world without a nuclear weapon program.
According to the original 2015 nuclear agreement, Iran was allowed to be purity rich in 3.67% purity and maintain a uranium reserve of 661 pounds. The IAEA’s last report on the Iran program puts its stock to 18,286 pounds because a small portion of it has a 60% purity.
Although Iran has insisted that it will not negotiate under coercion, its economy has suffered damages due to U.S. sanctions. protest In recent years, its government has been shaken by the rights of women, the economy and the theocratic politics of Iran.
China attempted to participate more in Middle East affairs, presided over the talks a year ago, thus fully restoring diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
