Tehran, Iran, June.22
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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini called Iran to to keep the nuclear deal in place.
"Our interest is to keep the nuclear deal in place. It is not an easy exercise; we never made a mystery of it,” Federica Mogherini said in an exclusive statement wrote to Iranian Labor News Agency, Trend reports citing ILNA.
She went on to say that a lot of work was done with the Member States to put in place mechanisms that can allow the Iranians to benefit from the economic transactions that can legitimately take place.
"Let me start by saying very clearly that our assessment on the implementation of the nuclear deal has never been, is not and will never be based on statements; [they are based] on the evaluation that the IAEA [the International Atomic Energy Agency] makes and the reports that the IAEA produces", she stated.
In her words, so far Iran has been compliant with its nuclear commitments as the Eu expected it to be and encouraged it to be. "And the majority of the international community together with us has cooperated with Iran in helping this implementation to continue," she added. "Iran is still compliant and we strongly hope, encourage, and expect that Iran continues to comply with its commitments under the JCPOA in full."
"The interest we have is to keep the nuclear deal in place. It is not an easy exercise; we never made a mystery of it. During the last year, it has become increasingly difficult for all to keep the nuclear deal fully implemented. This has been our constant focus as Europeans, as the European Union, myself personally, as I have a responsibility in coordinating the work of the Joint Commission [of the JCPOA]," Federica Mogherini said.
According to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the efforts taken so far have prevented Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. "This is our goal. So we will keep our focus on this objective," she noted.
She emphasized that the common approach is to avoid an escalation and actually help de-escalating.
"We would not like to see is a military escalation in the region. We think it will be extremely dangerous and definitely not positive, neither for anyone in the region nor for Europe nor for the rest of the world," she said.