Raisi says Iran will not retreat on demands in nuclear talks
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says that his country will not back down on its positions in the nuclear deal negotiations.
In a Cabinet meeting today, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi discussed the ongoing deadlock with the United States over the nuclear negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
“The Americans say that Iran must return to the JCPOA, but Iran has never left the deal. It is the Americans who have violated the deal,” Raisi said.
In 2018, former US President Donald Trump exited the JCPOA and reapplied sanctions. Trump was seeking to undo an Obama-era accomplishment and sign another deal with his name. However, given the intense nature of the original negotiations and that it was a deal between Iran and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany and not just between Iran and the United States, Trump’s negotiations never started.
