PARIS / BERLIN, 02 September 2021, (TON): France and Germany urged Iran to return rapidly to nuclear negotiations, after a break in talks following Iranian elections in June, with Paris demanding an “immediate” restart amid Western concerns over Tehran’s expanding atomic work.

Le Drian’s ministry said in a statement “France’s foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told his newly-appointed Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian in a telephone call it was urgent for Tehran to return to the talks.”

Amirabdollahian said in an interview “we are not seeking to flee the negotiation table. The government considers a real negotiation is a negotiation that produces palpable results allowing the rights of the Iranian nation to be guaranteed.”

He said “the Vienna talks are one of the questions on the foreign policy and government agenda.”

But “the other party knows full well that a process of two to three months is required for the new government to establish itself and to start taking decisions.”

A sixth round of indirect talks between Tehran and Washington was adjourned in June after hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi was elected Iran’s president. Raisi took office on August 5.