Tehran, Iran – Iran may set a legal deadline for deadlocked talks aimed at restoring its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, the country’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has suggested to Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview.
The move could happen through the parliament as some politicians in Tehran are growing increasingly impatient with the unending talks, Amirabdollahian.
“In the parliament, there is this idea that the government should not perennially be in a path of negotiations to bring all parties back to the JCPOA,” he said referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the accord that the United States unilaterally abandoned in 2018.
According to Amirabdollahian, some factions of Iran’s parliament are pushing for proposals and legislation that could make the government’s work “more difficult” in continuing the talks.
“The window of the talks to return to the JCPOA won’t remain open forever,” he told Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem.
The last time Iran’s conservative parliament passed legislation concerning the nuclear deal was in late 2020 when it set a deadline for US sanctions to be removed. When that did not happen, the administration of the centrist former president, Hassan Rouhani ramped up uranium enrichment and limit nuclear inspections.
Source: Aljazeera.com
