Representatives from China, Russia and Iran on Friday called for an end to US sanctions on Iran for the rapid advancement of nuclear programmes and the resumption of a multinational conference on the issue.
The talks are the latest attempt to broach the issue and come after US President Donald Trump I wrote a letter to the Iranian supreme leader I will try to give a Jump Start lecture.
The unpublished letter was provided because Trump imposes new sanctions on Iran as part of his “maximum pressure” campaign to retain the possibility of military action, highlighting that he still believes he will reach a new contract.
The three countries that we met on Friday morning “emphasized the need to end all illegal, unilateral sanctions,” Chinese deputy minister Ma Chaoks read from a joint statement, adjacent to Russian deputy minister Riabakov Sergei Aleksivich and Iranian deputy minister Kazem Galibabadi.
“The three countries have reiterated that political and diplomatic engagement and dialogue based on the principle of mutual respect are the only viable and practical options in this regard,” reads Ma.
China’s Foreign Minister was scheduled to meet with the representative later that day.
Iran’s top leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei laughed at Trump, saying Iranian officials are not interested in discussing with the “bullying government” while providing conflicting signals over possible negotiations. Trump wrote to Khamenei in 2019, and had no apparent impact on the rising tensions.
Both China and Russia are permanent members of the UN Security Council, along with France and the UK, who participated in the 2015 Iran’s nuclear trade reserve framework agreement with Germany and the European Union. Trump retracted America in 2018a move of several years of attacks and tensions in the wider Middle East.
China and Russia are in the energy trade and Iran provided a drone to carry bombs to Russia In the war with Ukraine.
They are also seen as a shared shared interest in diminishing the role of the US and other liberal democracies in determining world events in favour of their own high authoritarian systems.
Iran claims that its nuclear program is peace. However, the officials are increasingly threatening to pursue nuclear weapons. Iran is currently bringing uranium closer to a 60% weapon grade level. This is the only country in the world without a nuclear weapons program.
Under the original 2015 nuclear deal, Iran was allowed to enrich uranium by up to 3.67% purity and maintain a 661 pound uranium stockpile. The last report by the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran’s programme has put the stockpile in 18,286 pounds to concentrate a portion of it to 60% purity.
Iran has maintained that it will not negotiate under obsession, but its economy has been saved by US sanctions. protest Beyond women’s rights, the economy and Iranian theocracy in recent years have shaken up the government.
China is trying to engage more in the Middle East issue, hosting consultations a year ago that would lead to a full recovery of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
