Russia FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said her country expects that the talks on the return of the US to the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) will be successfully completed by the 6th anniversary of the deal on July 14.
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing on Thursday that Russia expects that the talks on the return of the US to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will be successfully completed by the sixth anniversary of the Iran nuclear deal - July 14, TASS news agency has reported.
According to the spokeswoman, considerable progress has been seen at the talks on the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna. "Over these three months, the delegations have managed to achieve substantial progress in coordinating the parameters and modalities of the process to restore the JCPOA. They also managed to determine the response and the sequence of the moves that the US and Iran are to make, as well as to analyse how the corresponding commitments will be formalized and their checks ensured," she added.
Along with the revision of restrictions against Iran imposed by the US, it is a priority to "restore as soon as possible the verifying activity of the IAEA in Iran to the degree envisaged by the Joint Plan of Action," she said. These agreements have no sensible alternative, "and without them security measures are getting more vulnerable," the diplomat stressed.
Meanwhile, no practical moves are seen from the US for now of abandoning its policy of pressuring Iran, Zakharova added.