Iran on Monday said it is possible to salvage an agreement on reviving its 2015 nuclear deal if Western parties, particularly the US, put an end to repeated delays, AFP reported.
An agreement “is possible both in term of the technical and political aspects”, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani was quoted as having said.
He charged that “the other sides, especially the US, have procrastinated” on reviving the deal, while expressing hopes that they would show “political determination” for a committed return to its implementation.
The nuclear deal hit a snag in 2018, when then-US President Donald Trump pulled out of the deal and reimposed sanctions on Iran.
Iran, in turn, began to scale back its compliance with the 2015 deal.
President Joe Biden has sought to revive the deal, but those efforts have been stalled since September.
At that time, Iran submitted a response to a European Union proposal to revive the deal. A senior Biden administration official said the Iranian response “is not at all encouraging.” A US official later said that the efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal have “hit a wall” because of Iran’s insistence on the closure of the UN nuclear watchdog’s investigations.
Kanani on Monday said Iran’s policy “is not to allow issues related to Iran’s peaceful nuclear activity to become an obstacle in the process of Iran’s cooperation” with the UN nuclear watchdog.
In March, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi visited Tehran after his agency’s inspectors in the country found uranium particles enriched to just under weapons-grade level.

Tehran denies wanting to acquire atomic weapons, and has said it had not made any attempt to enrich uranium beyond 60 percent purity.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran is moving on the roadmap within the framework of the visit to Iran by Mr. Grossi … and in this regard, practical and operational actions have been introduced and we are moving forward,” Kanani added on Monday, according to AFP.