WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia will support nuclear agreements with Iran during the agreement ensures Tehran will never get nuclear weapons, Foreign Minister Saudi Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said on Tuesday.
“We certainly support an agreement with Iran during an agreement ensuring that Iran will never get access to nuclear technology,” he said during the Aspen security forum.
Iran and Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic bonds in 2016, with the last repeatedly called for harder conditions for Iran in the 2015 nuclear agreement.
Recent countries launched several rounds of conversation to discuss bilateral relations and ways to resolve regional problems.
In 2015, Iran sealed an agreement on nuclear development with Russia, China, the United States, Britain, the European Union, France and Germany, officially known as a common comprehensive action plan (JCPOA).
Based on the provisions of the agreement, Tehran must reduce its nuclear program and greatly reduce its uranium reserves in exchange for sanctions.
However, the agreement was all except mothballed in 2018 when former US President Donald Trump pulled Washington from the agreement and re-imposed the sanctions policy of Tehran, which gradually left his commitment.
Since April, Vienna has become a hosting JCPOA joint commission session, as well as informal meetings in various formats that aim to prevent Iran’s nuclear agreement from falling apart after the United States withdrew from the agreement.
The sixth round of conversation was completed on June 20.
Tehran said that negotiations had to continue after the elected president of Ebrahim Rice served on August 5.