TABNAK, Sep, 23: Araqchi who is currently in New York for the UN General Assembly annual session, said, “We are ready (for the talks) and if the other side is ready too, we can have a new start of negotiations in here New York,” he said.
“We are making efforts for start of new round of talks on nuclear issue (during the stay in New York),” he said.
The JCPOA, agreed upon in 2015, aimed to limit Iran's nuclear program in exchange for the termination of sanctions.
Following the United States unilateral exit from the JCPOA on May 8, 2018, Iran activated the dispute resolution mechanism within the framework of the JCPOA Joint Committee at the ministerial level. As a result of this meeting, the JCPOA parties issued a statement, outlining 11 commitments to offset the economic impact of the U.S.'s unilateral actions.
However, the unbalanced implementation of the agreement on one side and the pressures from the U.S.'s unilateral sanctions on the other side led to Iran's Supreme National Security Council deciding to halt the gradual implementation of voluntary nuclear commitments, granting a 60-day window for diplomacy, one year after the U.S.'s withdrawal from the JCPOA.
