Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian will head to Moscow on Tuesday, his ministry said, days after negotiations on an Iran nuclear deal was paused last week.

Amir Abdollahian will “go to Moscow on Tuesday” to continue discussions on the nuclear deal, ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters on Monday.

Khatibzadeh dismissed a report by The Wall Street Journal that the revival of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was being threatened by the Russian demands over the sanctions imposed on Moscow after the war in Ukraine.

He said that Russia has proposed its requests quite formally and transparently, and that the subject needs to be discussed by the JCPOA Joint Commission, just like any other issue or demand raised by the other parties.

“The Russian officials have hinted in the private talks and inside the (JCPOA) Joint Commission that they would not prevent any good deal,” Khatibzadeh stated.

Slamming the US as the main party with whom the blame lies for the status quo, the spokesman said Russia and China have displayed the “most constructive and closest” stances in support of Iran in the Vienna talks over the past 11 months.

“Reducing what is happening in Vienna (and linking it) to a single element, namely to a Russian demand, is what the US is after in order to consign its responsibility for the current situation to oblivion. Nobody should forget that the United States is held accountable at present for the current conditions as we are in the state of non-agreement,” the Iranian spokesman added.

He reiterated that as soon as the US makes its political decision, all delegations can return from their capitals to Vienna and conclude an agreement.

Source: Iranian media