A leading European Union diplomat was holding talks in Tehran amid hopes that an agreement to restore Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers could be completed.
And for the first time, Iran’s top diplomat on Saturdayover Tehran’s demand that Washington stop designating the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, its powerful paramilitary force, as a foreign terrorist organization.
alongside Israel’s foreign minister, seeking to reassure his jittery counterparts before the gathering.Remarks on Sunday by the U.S. special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, underscored the U.S. limitations that have frustrated allies. He declined to discuss details of the nuclear negotiations, but reiterated that America had failed to secure a broader deal with Iran that would restrict its ballistic missiles program and curb its regional military policies.
Anxieties over a restored deal also were on stark display in Tehran, laying bare deep fissures in Iran’s divided political system. In an interview late Saturday with the semiofficial Fars news agency, Shariatmadari insisted that the foreign minister had misunderstood the Revolutionary Guard when he spoke on the force’s behalf.
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