Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York to discuss the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.
The meeting comes as a deal seems unlikely after the US has accused Tehran of not taking negotiations seriously. But Iran appears willing to talk and said it wouldn’t rule out holding JCPOA talks on the sidelines of the General Assembly.
Raisi conveyed to Macron that one of Iran’s concerns was over the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) inquiry into traces of uranium at undeclared nuclear sites. The Iranian leader said that the IAEA investigation has been subject to pressure from other countries.
“The agency’s approach towards technical issues must be away from pressures by others, and we believe that achieving an agreement will not be possible without closing Iran’s cases,” Raisi told Macron, according to Al Jazeera. “Europe must show in action that its policies are separate from those of the US and does not follow the wishes and policies of the US.”
The meeting came after the majority of the IAEA’s Board of Governors condemned Iran by endorsing a statement introduced by the US, Britain France, and Germany that criticized Tehran over the IAEA’s uranium inquiry.
Iran has submitted documents to the IAEA over the issue, but the nuclear watchdog is not satisfied with Tehran’s explanations. Iran believes the IAEA’s stance on the uranium traces is a result of Western pressure.
“Iran and the agency [IAEA] are able to resolve existing cases and we won’t exert political pressure on the agency on this issue,” Macron said at the meeting, according to Raisi’s website. Iranian officials also met with EU officials as the EU has been brokering talks between Iran and the US on the JCPOA.
Also on Tuesday, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that the US doesn’t expect a breakthrough on the JCPOA to happen on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Notice the very fair gathering of anti-Iran countries in the IAEA!!!
Wouldn’t it be nice if these jokers (IAEA) would get off their asses and get a deal done? How hard is that?!
“Europe must show in action that its policies are separate from those of the US and does not follow the wishes and policies of the US.”
Good luck with that.
One country after another, they are starting to do that. And each time they slip into opposition to the US. Hungary first, now Sweden, in a few days Italy.
The big one will be when Germany’s close balance shifts against the US. France’s Macron won’t stand against any of that, and Brexit took pipsqueak wannabe Britain out of the game.
Biden wants his cake and eat it too.
Our mainstream media wants to give him both, too.
There was never any walkback.
Biden said he would send troops to Taiwan and that represented no change in policy.
The WH in its “walkback” said there was no change in policy.
What that means in sum that the policy is “re-interpreted.”
Bottom line is that both WH spokespeople and Biden AGREE that the policy is to send troops to Taiwan.
I do not agree with many things Macron does but at least he tries.
He tries to resolve the impending US / Iran crisis
He tries to resolve Ukraine crisis.
He makes the current and recent British Prime Ministers look like cheap hucksters
They should all convert to Judaism before the bombing starts.
The second part is a lie…!