No exchange of messages between Iran, Trump administration

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs says that no message was exchanged between Tehran and the Donald Trump administration in Washington.

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27 January 2025

EghtesadOnline: Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi said that Iran does not have money blocked in another country due to sanctions.

In October 2025, based on Security Council Resolution 2231, the JCPOA will end and after this date, there will be no JCPOA.

He stressed that no message was exchanged between Iran and the US.

The JCPOA was signed in 2015 between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Former US President Donald Trump illegally pulled out of the deal in 2018 while the current US President, Joe Biden, has signaled that he is ready to resurrect the agreement.

Russia, the UK, Germany, China, the US, and France have been in talks with Iran since April 2021 to reinstate the deal.

The talks to salvage the JCPOA kicked off in the Austrian capital of Vienna in April 2021, with the intention of examining Washington’s seriousness in rejoining the deal and removing anti-Iran sanctions.

The negotiations have been at a standstill since August due to Washington’s insistence on its hard-nosed position of not removing all the sanctions that were slapped on the Islamic Republic by the previous Trump administration. Iran maintains it is necessary for the other side to offer some guarantees that it will remain committed to any agreement that is reached. / Mehr