The Kremlin said Monday that Russia is ready to do everything it can to resolve tensions between the US and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program.
US President Donald Trump threatened to bomb Iran unless there was an agreement with Washington on a nuclear program.
At the beginning of March, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Iran’s nuclear issue should be resolved diplomatically, and there is no reason why this cannot be done.
“We firmly believe that Iran’s nuclear issue should only be resolved through peaceful, political and diplomatic means. We believe that these conditions are in place. Only political will is required,” he said.
US President Donald Trump announced on March 7 that he had sent a message to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei asking for negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program. Iranian leaders rejected his offer, saying that the United States was not trying to negotiate in good faith.
Peskov also said that Moscow “gets from a statement that Iranian leaders and Iranian representatives have no plans to acquire nuclear weapons.”
The Joint Comprehensive Action Programme (JCPOA), also known as Iran’s nuclear deal, was signed by Iran, five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (Russia, UK, China, USA and France), and Germany in 2015 to resolve the crisis surrounding the country’s nuclear program.
The US withdrawn the agreement under President Donald Trump in 2018 and reimposed all sanctions on Iran that were lifted under the deal. Russia, China, the US, UK, Germany and France resumed talks with Iran in April 2021, aiming to recover the JCPOA, but negotiations ended in 2022 without reaching a resolution.
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