INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says the United States 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 and France, Luigi Di Maio and Catherine
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 the JCPOA revival negotiations and
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
Iran, and that it must be overturned unconditionally.
