Iran’s foreign minister says the country will fully implement its 2015 nuclear deal if US President-elect Joe Biden lifts sanctions on Tehran, which he says could be done swiftly through “three executive orders”.
“If Mr Biden is willing to fulfill US commitments, we too can immediately return to our full commitments in the accord … and negotiations are possible within the framework of the P5 + 1 (six world powers in the accord),” Mohammad Javad Zarif said in the interview posted on the website of the state-run daily Iran on Wednesday.
“We are ready to discuss how the United States can re-enter the accord,” Zarif said.
“The situation will improve in the next few months. Biden can lift all sanctions with three executive orders.”
Joe Biden has pledged to rejoin the 2015 accord, agreed by Washington when he was vice-president, if Iran also returns to compliance.
But diplomats and analysts say it is unlikely to happen overnight as the distrustful adversaries would want additional commitments from each other.
In the deal with the United States and other world powers, Iran agreed to curbs on its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief.
It began breaching the nuclear deal after President Donald Trump withdrew in 2018 and started ratcheting up unilateral sanctions on Tehran.
Read the article in The West Australian (AAP).