PARIS, Nov. 9 (Reuters) – The French foreign minister told his Iranian counterpart on Tuesday that when talks with world powers over relaunching a nuclear deal resume at the end of November, they will have to pick up where they left off. stopped in June.

The comments suggest growing concern over Iran’s public rhetoric ahead of the resumption of indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Vienna on November 29.

On Monday, Tehran repeatedly called on the United States to lift all the sanctions it has imposed since then-President Donald Trump abandoned a 2015 deal between Iran and the major powers, and to guarantee that he would no longer renounce the agreement. Read more

In an appeal with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, Frenchman Jean-Yves Le Drian “underlined the importance and the urgency of resuming the negotiations interrupted on June 20 by Iran, on the basis negotiated until then. , with the objective of a rapid return (to the agreement), “said a spokesperson for the ministry.

Under the deal, Iran agreed to limit its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of United Nations sanctions that had crippled its economy.

Since Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018, Iran has responded to the imposition of US sanctions by violating prescribed limits on uranium enrichment, which can be used to make nuclear weapon fuel. . Iran says its program is entirely peaceful.

Iran’s main nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, was in Paris on Tuesday as part of a tour of the capitals of France, Britain and Germany, the three European parties to the pact.

After Amirabdollahian spoke to German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Iranian state media on Tuesday quoted the Iranian minister as saying that the US withdrawal and the Europeans’ failure to meet their obligations had “aggravated the mistrust “.

Reporting by John Irish and Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Benoit Van Overstraeten and Kevin Liffey

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