Kremlin says Iran has right to peaceful nuclear program, urges diplomacy to solve issues
Russia defends Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy and its lawful activities, urging diplomacy to solve the remaining issues.
At a briefing with reporters on Friday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow accepted Tehran’s statements that it has no intention of obtaining nuclear weapons.
"We are convinced that the problem of Iran's nuclear program should be resolved exclusively by peaceful political and diplomatic means,” he added.
Russia believes that everything necessary is available to solve issues about Iran’s nuclear program, Peskov said, emphasizing, “All that is needed is political will.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is “mostly threatening,” but it also claims that there are opportunities.
“We will not engage in direct negotiations under pressure, threats, or increased sanctions. We will see both the threat and opportunity aspects,” he added.
In his New Persian Year speech on Friday, Ayatollah Khamenei warned the United States against using the language of threats against Iran.
The Americans should know that in dealing with Iran, they can never get anywhere using threats, the Leader added.
In May 2018, Trump pulled Washington out of a multilateral international agreement, formally known as the JCPOA, signed between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany in 2015.
The UNSC-endorsed agreement required Iran to scale back some of its nuclear activities in return for the lifting of sanctions imposed on the country, especially by the United States.
Trump then imposed severe economic sanctions against Tehran while Iran was adhering to its commitments under the deal and even continued to do so for a year after the US withdrawal.
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