PARIS, 27 December 2021, (TON): A source said “the French delegation participating in the latest round of talks between Iran and the world powers on removal of sanctions slowed down and even obstructed the process of negotiations.”

An informed source said that the French negotiating team in Vienna talks played an obstructive role, saying that works on Vienna drafts was progressing during the two-day absence of the French delegation.

The source said that the French delegation played no constructive role in the latest round of talks and even slowed down the process of negotiations.

The negotiations process was disturbed “the source added that after the French team returned to the negotiations and showed opposition to the drafts.”

In relevant remarks, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian had said that his country will not accept the western sides’ excessive demands in the Vienna talks, blasting France for unconstructive behavior.

Amir Abdollahian said in a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein in Tehran “in the last round of the Vienna talks, after two stages of negotiations, we reached a single document and agenda, and there was a significant progress in the previous two rounds of talks. In the negotiations, in general, I did not see the position of certain European countries, specially France, as constructive. We hope that the French side will play a constructive role and the Iranian people’s rights will be restored realistically.”

The second problem with the three European countries is that in practice they did not show any new initiative in the negotiations.