TEHRAN, May 11 - Iran and the European Union will hold a ministerial meeting in Brussels next week following the U.S. pullout from an international deal on Tehran's nuclear development.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) – Foreign ministers of Iran and three European countries -- Britain, France and Germany -- and Federica Mogherini, high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, will meet on Tuesday to discuss the new situation after the U.S. withdrawal, the diplomat said on condition of anonymity, Kyodo reported.
In the one-day meeting, Iran will seek the European Union's "practical guarantees" stressed by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the only way to salvage the Iran nuclear deal, he added.
While withdrawing on Tuesday from the accord struck under his predecessor Barack Obama, U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to impose economic sanction against Iran.
President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday that Iran will remain in the 2015 pact temporarily to negotiate with the other six parties -- Britain, France, Germany, the European Union, Russia and China -- and study the possibility of keeping it alive.
Meanwhile, speaking on the phone with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, Rouhani said Europe has a very limited time to save the pact and must determine and announce its clear, firm stances on its obligations in the deal.
Under the pact formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear activities in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.