Mora made the comment in a twitter post, a day after he began talks with Iran’s top negotiator and Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani in Qatar’s capital Doha.
“Intense talks yesterday and today with Vice Minister @Bagheri_Kani in Doha on a range of difficult bilateral, regional and international issues, including the way forward on the JCPOA.”
The JCPOA, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, is the official name of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal which the Islamic Republic clinched with the EU as well as the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, namely the US, the UK, France, Britain, China, Russia plus Germany.
The JCPOA was thrown into disarray in May 2018 when the US withdrew from it and reinstated the anti-Iran sanctions lifted under the accord.
Iran began talks with the remaining signatories in April 2021. Those talks however stalled since last year over what Iran has called the lack of a political will from the Western side to abide by its commitments and lift the sanctions in a verifiable manner.
Earlier on Wednesday, Bagheri Kani spoke of “serious and constructive talks” with Mora on the removal of the sanctions.
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