TEHRAN, June 13, YJC - Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and EU’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogrini discussed a range of issues including the JCPOA deal and the recent changes in the Persian Gulf countries.
The two sides stressed that the only way to mitigate the tensions in the region
is political talks, and other ways bear no fruit.
Mogrini, referring to the current
tensions between Qatar and some of its Arab neighbors, also stressed that for the
time being mitigating tensions and, subsequently, starting negotiations are of
the most critical issues on top of agenda.
In this
visit, Mogrini re-emphasized the EU’s commitment to the implementation of JCPOA.
Zarif also said that Iran never start violating the JCPOA.
The JCPOA was inked between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries, namely
Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany, in July 2015. Barring the
new US administration, the governments in all of those countries have stressed
the sustenance of the JCPOA.
The agreement took effect in January 2016. Under the deal, limits were put
on Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for, among other things, the removal
of all nuclear-related sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic.