WEISENHOUSE, Germany – He hoped that stalled talks with Iran could lead to an agreement on the country’s nuclear program, the EU foreign policy chief said Friday.
Negotiations between Tehran and world powers have stalled, in part due to Iran’s request for the United States to remove the terrorist name from the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards.
Speaking at a meeting of Germany’s seven major economic groups, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Relations and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, said the EU envoy. He visited Tehran this week for negotiations that went “better than expected”.
“Negotiations were delayed for two months due to this disagreement on what to do with the Revolutionary Guards,” Borrell said.
“These things cannot be resolved overnight, but let’s just say that the talks have stalled and stalled,” he added. “This means that there is a possibility of reaching an agreement.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian echoed Borrell’s assessment, saying on Twitter that the talks between the EU envoy and the Iranian negotiator were “another opportunity to focus on trying to resolve important issues.”
“A good and reliable result can be achieved if the United States makes a decision and lives up to its commitments,” Abdullahian said.
Meanwhile, EU envoy Enrique Mora said on Friday that he was briefly detained at Frankfurt airport with colleagues at Frankfurt airport for violating diplomatic rules while transiting from Tehran to Brussels.
Mora said he had not received an “explanation” from the German authorities as to why he was arrested. “Official mission of the European Union holding a Spanish diplomatic passport. “I got out my passport and phones,” he tweeted.
He said the EU ambassador in Vienna and the head of the EU working group on Iran were also arrested.
“We bought it separately,” Mora wrote. “Refuse to make any statement that appears to be a violation of the Vienna Convention.”
German federal police said the three diplomats were instructed to be monitored by a computer system for their travels from Tehran and not as information on individuals. Police said they were released after 40 minutes.
The German foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Source: Washington Post
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