Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Emir Abdullahiyan said his country is ready to immediately exchange prisoners with the United States. Abdullahiyan also stated that if a consensus cannot be reached on returning to the nuclear agreement signed in 2015, western states will be responsible for this.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Emir Abdullahiyan attended the Munich Security Conference. Abdullahiyan, who was a speaker at a panel, made statements about the prisoner exchange between the USA and Iran. Saying that the issue of prisoner exchange should be separated from other issues, the Iranian minister said, “We believe that prisoner exchange is a humanitarian issue. This issue is not related to the nuclear deal issue. We can do the prisoner swap immediately,” he said.
Referring to the ongoing negotiations regarding Iran’s re-compliance with the terms of the nuclear agreement signed in 2015 and the US returning to the agreement with which the previous President Trump withdrew, Abdullahiyan claimed that the responsibility for this issue lies with the western countries.
In his assessment on the subject, the Iranian Foreign Minister said, “If the ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran and the western powers do not yield results, the western states will be responsible for this. “Because we want to make a good deal,” he said.
Responding to a question about whether Iran is ready to have direct talks with Washington, Abdullahiyan said, “For this, we should see concrete goodwill steps such as Washington’s lifting of the decision to freeze Iran’s foreign assets.”
Iran ceased to fulfill its obligations to the agreement after former President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 nuclear agreement signed by Iran and western countries. With President Biden taking office, talks were started in Vienna, the capital of Austria, in order to return to an agreement between Iran and other countries. A clear agreement has not yet been reached in the negotiations.