MOSCOW, February 8 Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to International Organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov said that the deadlock in the negotiations in Vienna on the restoration of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) could lead to an uncontrollable escalation. Twitter.
Earlier, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said that Iran's position on some issues complicates the possibility of reaching an agreement on the JCPOA on the Iranian nuclear program.
Western countries claim that Iran is allegedly currently supplying drones to Russia for military operations in Ukraine. Moscow and Tehran have repeatedly denied such accusations. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian stated that Tehran supplied the Russian Federation with drones, but a few months before the start of a special operation in Ukraine.
The Iranian Foreign Minister called the information about the supply of missiles to Russia «completely false.» The Kremlin also noted that they did not have data on Iranian weapons — the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov reported that «Russian equipment is used, with Russian names.»
In 2015, Great Britain, Germany, China, Russia, the USA, France and Iran signed a nuclear deal — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which involved the lifting of sanctions in exchange for limiting Iran's nuclear program. In May 2018, the United States under Donald Trump withdrew from the JCPOA and reinstated sanctions against Tehran. In response, Iran announced a phased reduction in its obligations under the agreement, abandoning restrictions on nuclear research, centrifuges and the level of uranium enrichment. Negotiations were held in Vienna to renew the JCPOA and lift Washington's sanctions against Tehran. In December 2021, the parties reached an agreement on two draft agreements, in which the European side included the positions of Iran. Iranian spokesman Bagheri Kyani said the talks were going well, but US State Department spokesman Ned Price assessed the progress in Vienna as modest, urging Tehran to take the matter seriously.