Addressing a group of analysts, university professors, media activists and Iranian ambassadors on Saturday night, Amir Abdollahian emphasized the good faith of Iran in the resumption of the Vienna talks.

He also said that Iran's policy in resuming Vienna talks is lifting the oppressive, illegal and unilateral US sanctions.

Amir Abdoollahian underlined the good faith of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the resumption of the Vienna talks, despite the violation of the JCPOA commitments and withdrawal from the deal, as well as the violation of Resolution 2231 by the United States and the inaction of European member states in fulfilling their undertakings.

Amir Abdollahian had stressed on Friday that a good agreement in Vienna talks aimed at removal of sanctions needs serious and positive approach by the other sides, saying that Tehran is not interested in remaining in the deadlock of the previous negotiations.

“The Islamic Republic has no intention to be locked in the stalemate remaining from the previous negotiations…I believe that if the opposite sides enter in the Vienna (talks) with a serious and positive approach, it will be possible to achieve a good agreement in a short time,” Amir Abdollahian wrote on his Instagram page.

He said it was necessary to once again outline Iran’s stance and views about the sanctions-removal talks in Vienna as the date of the negotiations has been finalized.

Amir Abdollahian said that he held “detailed and separate” phone talks with the foreign ministers of the G4+1 group of countries, China, Russia, Britain, Germany and France, last week, and emphasized that the Islamic Republic would pursue a result-oriented approach to the talks and is “determined to achieve a good agreement”.

He emphasized that achieving a good agreement calls for the “effective and verifiable removal of sanctions and the return of the opposite sides to their full obligations” as per the nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

Amir Abdollahian said Washington’s behavior, including in imposing new sanctions against Iran, has made the provision of its “objective guarantees” an unavoidable necessity.

The foreign minister noted that his deputy and the country's chief negotiator Ali Baqeri Kani, held “explicit and useful” talks in European capitals this week.

Recently, Baqeri Kani traveled to France, Germany and Britain.

“As I have repeatedly emphasized, the administration of the Islamic Republic of Iran will continue the policy on the expansion of balanced ties with countries based on mutual respect and common interests with seriousness and is determined not to tie the improvement of bilateral and multilateral economic cooperation to the issue of the JCPOA,” Amir Abdollahian said.

The JCPOA was unilaterally abandoned by the US in 2018 despite Iran’s full compliance with its nuclear undertakings, as repeatedly certified by the UN nuclear agency. The US then unleashed a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, which practically deprived the country of all of the deal’s economic benefits.

Iran fully honored its nuclear obligations for an entire year, after which it decided to ramp up its nuclear work as a legal “remedial measure” against the US violation of the deal and the abject failure on the part of the other signatories, the E3 in particular, to safeguard its benefits.

The US administration of Joe Biden has said it is willing to compensate for former President Donald Trump’s mistake and rejoin the deal, but it has shown an overriding propensity for maintaining some of the sanctions as a tool of pressure. Tehran insists that all sanctions should first be removed in a verifiable manner before it reverses its remedial measures.

Envoys from Iran and the G4+1 are expected to hold the seventh round of discussions in Vienna on November 29. The negotiations were paused in June, when Iran held its presidential election. Since then, the new Iranian administration has been reviewing the details of the six rounds of discussions held under the previous administration.