Iranian Foreign Minister Hoss announced that a favorable outcome of the talks aimed at reviving Iran's nuclear deal with world powers, aka the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will be achieved only after all parties to the deal fully commit to their obligations

Hossein Amirabdollahian made the announcement at a press conference held in Tokyo on Monday.


Referring to indirect talks between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, the top diplomat said prisoners swap between Iran and the US is a humane issue about which the two sides have held negotiations several times in the past months.


In May 2018, the US under the presidency of Donald Trump did unilaterally pull out the JCPOA which had been signed in July 2015 between Iran and world powers and imposed the sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Tehran has repeatedly announced that the US should first lift its anti-Iran sanctions if it wants to return to the deal.

About his visit to Japan, Amirabdollahian stated that it is in line with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi's policy of expanding relations with friendly Asian countries including Japan.

Cultural ties between Iran and Japan go back to over a millennium ago and diplomatic cooperation between the two has more than nine decades of history, he added, noting that Tehran sees such record as a strong base for expansion of bilateral relations.