Russian Foreign Ministry, on Tuesday, said its minister Sergei Lavrov and Iran’s top leaders aligned positions on issues around Iran’s nuclear programme during talks in Tehran.......CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE>>>>>
A ministry statement said Lavrov discussed a wide range of bilateral and regional issues with both President Masoud Pezeshkian and his Iranian counterpart Seyed Abbas Araghchi.
“Positions were aligned on the situation around the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian Nuclear Programmе,” the statement said.
It was gathered that Russia is a signatory of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA, deal alongside the US, China, France, Britain and Germany.
The deal lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for curbs on its nuclear activities.
Lavrov had earlier said in Tehran that Moscow was sure that diplomatic measures were still on the table when it came to resolving issues around Iran’s nuclear programme.
The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UNnuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, said last week that Iran continued to enrich uranium well beyond the needs for commercial nuclear use despite UN pressure to stop it.
Grossi said that while the pace of uranium enrichment had slowed slightly since the end of last year, Iran was still enriching at an elevated rate of around 7 kg of uranium per month to 60% purity.