Raeisi’s govt. set ground for neutralizing anti-Iran sanctions: Interim FM

Iran's Interim Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani says the administration of late president Ebrahim Raeisi paved the way for the revival of negotiations on the removal of anti-Iran sanctions and the neutralization of bans against the Islamic Republic.

Bagheri Kani made the statement on the sidelines of the Iranian government’s weekly cabinet meeting in the capital Tehran on Wednesday.

“Martyr Raeisi's administration acted in various fields of foreign policy in such a way that the paths are across the board, and his regional and neighborliness policy has no opposition either inside or outside the country,” he said.

Pointing to the issue of negotiations to lift Western-led sanctions on Tehran, the top Iranian diplomat said, “Martyr Raeisi announced from the beginning of the 13th government that they were following both the path of negotiations and the path of neutralizing sanctions. To this end, the path of negotiation was followed seriously… although there was a disruption for a while during the talks.”

Bagheri Kani stressed that the Islamic Republic pursued a “right and logical path,” and is currently treading on a distinguished track.

“In this regard, the next administration can follow the smooth path that was created in this government with new energy both in the field of lifting sanctions and in the field of consolidating nuclear rights.”

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Elsewhere in his remarks, Iran’s interim foreign minister said the late chief executive’s good neighborliness policy started with mutual political trust and showed a new face of Iran to the neighboring countries and the region.

“Since Raeisi's swearing-in and during the time that the representatives of foreign countries came to Tehran and had bilateral meetings with him, we witnessed that their conception after meeting with Raeisi clearly showed that the ground for political mutual trust has been completely set for them,” Bagheri Kani said.

“This political mutual trust must be followed by economic interaction so that we can have a stable and progressing region,” he added.

Former US President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in May 2018, imposing severe economic sanctions against Tehran while Iran was adhering to its commitments under the agreement and even continued to do so for a year after the US withdrawal.

Tehran scaled back its commitments to the JCPOA in a series of pre-announced and clear steps after witnessing the other parties' failure to secure its interest under the agreement.

Joe Biden, who succeeded Trump, reneged on his presidential campaign promises to return to the landmark deal and imposed fresh rounds of sanctions on Tehran, blocking any path to the revivification of the JCPOA.

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