DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will soon present a ‘constructive’ plan of action, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday after European sources said Tehran was showing positive signs of opening informal talks on its nuclear program .
“As Iran’s FM (foreign minister) and chief negotiator, I will soon present our constructive concrete plan of action – through proper diplomatic channels,” Zarif said on Twitter.
A French diplomatic source and another European source said on Thursday that Iran had given encouraging signs in recent days over the opening of informal talks after European powers scrapped plans to criticize Tehran at the UN’s watchdog.
Iran has so far refused to take part in a meeting mediated by the European Union between world powers and the United States on the revival of its 2015 nuclear deal.
Iran’s nuclear policy is decided by the country’s supreme authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and not the president or government.
Tehran and Washington stemmed from former US President Donald Trump’s efforts to destroy Iran’s nuclear deal that was caught on who should move first to save it. Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018.
Britain, France and Germany have decided to suspend the submission of a critical resolution on Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Thursday so as not to jeopardize the prospects for diplomacy, after what they say are Iran’s concessions to deal with the outstanding nuclear power.
(Reporting by the Dubai News Office; Edited by Nick Macfie)