Iran talks about saving the nuclear deal after the US withdrawal

Leading Iranian diplomats and five world powers meet on Friday as Tehran seeks badurances that it will economically benefit from the nuclear deal despite the US withdrawal from the pact.

But in a setback on the eve of the talks, Iranian President Hbadan Rouhani told French President Emmanuel Macron that the European economic measures currently proposed do not go far enough.

Rouhani, who has been this week in Europe to support the survival of the agreement, said in a phone call with Macron Since the shock of US President Donald Trump in May, which has dismayed all the other signatories, Washington warned other countries to stop trade and investment in Iran and stop buying its products.

The other signatories – Great Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia – vowed to stay in agreement but seem powerless to stop their country "The companies that are withdrawing from Iran for fear of US sanctions

The meeting of foreign ministers in Vienna will discuss the European offer to persuade Iran to abide by the 2015 agreement, said a European diplomat without specifying the measures. The senior diplomats of the five powers and the European Union were to join the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, from 9:00 GMT to Vienna, where the agreement was signed.

Sergei Ryabkov, Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. "Impulse" to protect the interests of economic actors.

And Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the meeting "would send a united and determined signal" to the world that the other parties "will continue to respect the agreement". ] – & # 39; Crime & aggression & # 39; –

Iranians have complained that the expected increase in foreign investment and trade after the agreement has not materialized.

Since the announcement of Trump, the currency of Iran has fallen, prices have risen and the country has been hit by street protests and strikes.

Rouhani, who signed the nuclear deal, was attacked at home by ultra-conservatives, who denounced his willingness to argue with the West. Yukiya Amano, head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency (IAEA) who monitors compliance with the agreement by Iran

Rouhani told Amano that US sanctions were a "crime and aggression". He added that "if the other signatories, apart from the United States, can guarantee the interests of Iran, then Iran will remain in the JCPOA," or Joint Action Plan, the agreement of the agreement.

Trump in May described the nuclear deal signed by his predecessor Barack Obama as "horrible" and "defective", getting applause from regional rivals Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel . denied ever seeking a nuclear bomb, warned that he could resume uranium enrichment for civilian purposes if the agreement collapsed.

The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promised that Iran "will never tolerate nuclear sanctions or restrictions." US-Iranian relations have been hostile since the 1979 overthrow of US-backed shah and the US hostage crisis

Washington considers Iran a state sponsor of terrorism, with links to Lebanese Hezbollah , Palestinian Hamas and Palestinian networks. Iraq and Yemen demand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stop supporting Iran's new diplomatic party, after security services announced they foiled an alleged plot to bomb a rally in Paris by a group of people. Iranian opposition in exile, the People's Mojahedin of Iran

The big rally last Saturday attracted several American politicians, including the former mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani, to-day. He is Trump's personal lawyer. 24] Six people were arrested in Belgium, France and Germany, while the opposition group accused the Iranian regime of alleged conspiracy

One of these detainees was a diplomat attached to the Iranian embbady in Austria.

Tehran rejected it is an orchestrated ploy aimed at discrediting Iran and eclipsing Rouhani's trip to Europe, and summoned on Wednesday the French and Belgian ambbadadors and the German chargé d'affaires in protest.

Iranian President Hbadan Rouhani declares that European economic measures offer is insufficient

The meeting of foreign ministers in Vienna will discuss the European offer to persuade Iran to to keep to the agreement of 2015