Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Tuesday that the United States should demonstrate its “goodwill and determination” to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, which Washington abandoned in 2018.
“By leaving the JCPOA, the United States has violated the agreement… America should demonstrate its goodwill and determination,” Raisi said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, referring to the English acronym for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action between Tehran. and six global powers.
After taking office in January 2021, US President Joe Biden sought to negotiate a resumption of the 2015 nuclear deal, under which Iran limited its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief imposed by the United States, the European Union (EU) and the UN.
Former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, claiming it was too generous to Tehran, and reimposed broad economic sanctions on Iran.
Efforts to revive the pact appeared to have fizzled out about a year ago, when diplomats said Iran had rejected what EU mediators called a final proposal.
Diplomats now consider the 2015 deal irretrievable because of Iran’s advances, especially in operating advanced centrifuges that have a much higher output of enriched uranium.
Source: Terra
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