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2024.09.25 08:45 GMT+8

Iran says ready to work with world powers to resolve nuclear standoff

Updated 2024.09.25 08:45 GMT+8
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President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 24, 2024. /CFP

Iran is ready to end its nuclear standoff with the West, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.

"We are ready to engage with participants of the 2015 nuclear deal. If the deal's commitments are implemented fully and in good faith, dialogue on other issues can follow," Pezeshkian said.

Then-President Donald Trump abandoned the 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and six world powers in 2018 and reimposed tough sanctions that have crippled Iran's economy. Efforts to revive the pact have failed.

The 2015 deal, which then-President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018, had capped Iran's uranium enrichment at 3.67 percent purity and its stockpile of this material at 202.8 kg (447 pounds) - limits Tehran has since far exceeded.

For Britain, France and Germany, who remain party to the nuclear deal, there is a sense that Tehran's leadership will not change course and that a broader accord encompassing the nuclear program and Iran's geopolitical role is unrealistic for now.

The United States, its European allies and Israel accuse Tehran of using its nuclear program as a veil for efforts to try to develop the capability to produce weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Source(s): Reuters
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