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comments suggest growing concern over Iran's public rhetoric
before indirect talks between Iran and the United States resume
in Vienna on Nov. 29.
On Monday, Tehran repeated demands that the United States lift
all the sanctions it has imposed since then-president Donald
Trump abandoned a 2015 deal between Iran and major powers, and
guarantee that it would not quit the deal again.
In a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian,
France's Jean-Yves Le Drian "stressed the importance and the
urgency of resuming the negotiations interrupted on June 20 by
Iran, on the basis negotiated up to that date, with the
objective of a rapid return (to the accord)", a ministry
spokesperson said.
Under the accord, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear programme in
exchange for the lifting of United Nations sanctions that had
hamstrung its economy.
Since Trump withdrew from the accord in 2018, Iran has responded
to the imposition of U.S. sanctions by breaching the prescribed
limits on uranium enrichment, which can be used to make the fuel
for nuclear weapons. Iran says its programme is entirely
peaceful.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, was in Paris on
Tuesday as part of a tour to the capitals of France, Britain and
Germany, the three European parties to the pact.
After Amirabdollahian spoke to German Foreign Minister Heiko
Maas, Iranian state media quoted the Iranian minister on Tuesday
as saying that the U.S. withdrawal and the failure of the
Europeans to meet their obligations had "deepened mistrust".
(Reporting by John Irish and Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Benoit
Van Overstraeten and Kevin Liffey)
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