Iran’s Diplomatic Efforts Ahead of Vienna Talks

On the other hand, Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, also reported on Monday, November 8, a phone call between Hossein Amirabdollahian and Liz Truss, his British counterpart. IRNA announced that the main topic of the conversation between the two officials was the talks on the revival of the JCPOA and the lifting of sanctions.

Ali Bagheri Kani, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Raisi administration and the country’s senior negotiator in Vienna, also announced in a Twitter post that in the coming days he would meet with “several European counterparts” in connection with the lifting of sanctions stipulated by the United States.

The announcement of the start date for the seventh round of JCPOA talks in Vienna came after Bagheri’s talks with Enrique Mora, Deputy to Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy coordinator and the EU’s representative in the JCPOA negotiations.

On Monday, November 8, Said Khatibzadeh, spokesman for the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, again called for obtaining assurances from the United States regarding the non-repetition of that country’s withdrawal from the nuclear agreement.

It should be noted that the Biden administration has repeatedly and explicitly stated that from a legal perspective it cannot make decisions for a future U.S. administration, and that providing such assurances from that country is not possible.