INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says the U.S
should abandon its excessive demands and instead take serious efforts toward reviving the landmark 2015 Iran deal.
Amir Abdollahian made the
statements during a phone call with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, on Monday evening, applauding the top EU
official's and his deputy Enrique Mora's ongoing efforts to restore the Iran agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA).The chief diplomat for Iran briefed the head of EU foreign policy on his recent conversations with counterparts from Italy
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, noting the necessity of facilitating unrestricted grain exports from Ukrainian ports.During the
phone call, the Iranian foreign minister commented on Tehran's stance to food and energy security, referring to the tripartite summit in
Tehran between the presidents of Iran, Russia, and Turkey.Borrell, for his part, praised Iran's constructive and serious intentions during
also praised Iran's efforts to remove the remaining barriers and resolve disputes to reach a final deal, underlining that he and Mora would
go to whatever length to assist and speed the process through dialogue and engagement with all parties concerned.Late last month, Iran and
the United States ended two days of indirect negotiations in Doha, Qatar, mediated by the European Union, in an attempt to break the
deadlock in renewing the JCPOA.Iran and the EU agreed at the end of the talks that they will remain in touch regarding the continuation of
the path and the next stage of negotiations.The Doha negotiations came after seven rounds of negotiations in Vienna, Austria, between Iran
and the five remaining JCPOA members since April of last year.The Vienna negotiations were halted because Washington insisted on its refusal
to undo its past wrongs through measures such as removing the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) from its foreign terrorist organization
list.Iran says the designation of the IRGC in 2019 was part of former U.S
