“Hey “The statement is not constructive and goes against goodwill,” the Iranian foreign ministry said in a statement.
“It is unfortunate that if diplomatic interactions continue, the E3 (France, Germany and the United Kingdom) issues a statement that departs from a useful approach,” the statement continued.
Iranian diplomacy also considered that European countries were “following the example of the Israeli regime” to block talks to save the 2015 nuclear deal.
“Iran still has the will to conclude an agreement and believes that if the other side shows the necessary will and avoids external pressure, it is possible to reach an agreement quickly,” Tehran said.
Iran has been negotiating for 16 months with Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, China and, indirectly, the United States to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, which limited Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, and was abandoned in 2018 by then from before the United States. President Donald Trump.
France, Germany and the United Kingdom warned Iran today that it has reached the “limits” of its “resilience”, as Tehran “continues to advance its nuclear program beyond any civilian justification”.
The joint statement of the spokesmen for the foreign ministries of the three European countries referred to “Iran’s lack of cooperation” with the International Atomic Energy Agency while continuing its “nuclear escalation.”
This week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said, in a confidential report obtained by Effie news agency, that Iran had increased its stockpile of enriched uranium by 60% in three months to 55.6 kilograms, a level of purity close to the level needed to make atomic bombs.
The nuclear deal stipulates that Iran should have no more than 300 kilograms of enriched uranium in gaseous form, the equivalent of about 200 kilograms in solid form.
The European Union put forward a final proposal in August to salvage the deal, and Iran and the United States provided comments.
Negotiations have reached the final stage, but the two sides seem to be deadlocked to reach a solution.
One major obstacle is that Tehran makes reactivation of the nuclear deal conditional on the IAEA shutting down an investigation into traces of uranium found at three undeclared Iranian sites that could indicate covert activities.
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