{"id":93234,"date":"2021-03-01T07:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=93234"},"modified":"2021-03-01T07:15:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:15:18","slug":"iran-balks-at-resuming-nuclear-talks-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/03\/01\/iran-balks-at-resuming-nuclear-talks-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Balks at Resuming Nuclear Talks with US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 Iran on Sunday balked at holding an informal meeting with the United States and three European powers about reviving the 2015 accord that restrained Tehran\u2019s nuclear development program to keep it from developing nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Tehran said that before talks are held, the new U.S. administration of President Joe Biden must first lift its unilateral economic sanctions against Iran.<\/p>\n

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that \u201cconsidering the recent actions and statements\u201d by the U.S., Britain, France and Germany, \u201cIran does not consider this the time to hold an informal meeting with these countries,\u201d which was proposed by the European Union foreign policy chief. Iran has said its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.<\/p>\n

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Iranian Parliament Speaker Puts Interim Nuclear Inspection Agreement with IAEA in Doubt<\/div>\n
Iranian parliament questions validity of temporary accord reached with IAEA head<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

A White House spokesperson responded Sunday by expressing \u201cdisappointment\u201d with Iran\u2019s response, but said the U.S. is ready to \u201creengage in meaningful diplomacy to achieve a mutual return to compliance with JCPOA commitments,\u201d referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Washington will consult the other four permanent members of the United Nations Security Council \u2013 Britain, China, France and Russia \u2013 plus Germany on the best way forward, the spokesperson said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Former U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal, but Biden during his presidential campaign against Trump and since he took office has said he wants to rejoin the pact that includes Russia and China. The U.S. has also opened talks with Iran over the fate of at least five American hostages being held by Tehran.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Biden has pressured Iran militarily, ordering airstrikes last week on buildings in Syria that the Defense Department says were used by Iranian-backed militias. The U.S. said the rocket attacks were in retaliation for missile attacks on U.S. targets in neighboring Iraq.<\/p>\n

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday the attacks in Syria killed at least 22 militia fighters, although the Pentagon did not confirm the figure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 Iran on Sunday balked at holding an informal meeting with the United States and three European powers about reviving the 2015 accord that restrained Tehran\u2019s nuclear development program to keep it from developing nuclear weapons. Tehran said that before talks are held, the new U.S. administration of President Joe Biden must first lift […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latests"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93237,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93234\/revisions\/93237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}