Iran's Araghchi Says Europe Has Two Options to Save the Nuclear Deal

• 08.29.2019, 11:36
•  Region,  Near East,  World

Europe should either ask Washington to restore sanctions waivers for buyers of Iran’s oil or provide a credit line to the Islamic Republic if it wants to save the nuclear deal, the country’s deputy foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in an interview to state TV, Bloomberg reports.

The two options have been relayed to French President Emmanuel Macron over the course of several recent phone calls with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, according to Araghchi. Both leaders have exchanged initiatives and ideas over how the 2015 nuclear deal, which the U.S. abandoned last year, can be preserved, he said.

Iran will come back to full compliance with the accord’s terms once it can sell oil and have full access to its revenues, the minister said.