State Department spokesman Ned Price said tonight (Friday) that the United States is interested in discussing with representatives from Germany, Iran and the UN Security Council as soon as possible in order to begin lifting sanctions and move toward a return to the nuclear deal.
According to a source close to the details, Biden’s aides have warned Israel in advance of the significant announcements they plan to make, including the announcement that they have decided to lift the sanctions imposed by former President Donald Trump’s administration on Iran. In addition, travel restrictions imposed by Trump on Iranian diplomats at the UN that prevented them from reaching its central headquarters in New York have been lifted.
However, according to the same source, President Joe Biden did not directly announce this to Netanyahu when they first spoke on Wednesday, and Netanyahu made it clear that he strongly opposes the United States’ re-accession to the agreement.
“The Biden administration is ready to enter into talks with Iran and other powers on a return to the 2015 nuclear deal,” Price told Forbes newspaper tonight. As you may recall, next week the Iranian ultimatum to the US will expire, according to which if the sanctions are not lifted by 21.2, it will not allow access by IAEA inspectors to some of its nuclear facilities.
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The United States has offered to join European countries, and if it does, it will be considered the first substantive diplomacy with Tehran after more than four years, Biden officials said, after Biden himself stated in an interview with CBS last week that he did not intend to lift sanctions on Iran before Stop uranium enrichment.
Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken spoke with European foreign ministers and agreed that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran “was a major achievement of multilateral diplomacy”, and it is important that it should be continued.