Tehran: Iran on Friday again urged the US to "unconditionally and effectively" lift its sanctions against Iran, in response to the US stated willingness to "attend a meeting of the P5+1 and Iran".
"Reminder: Because of US withdrawal from JCPOA, there is NO P5+1," Saeed Khatibzadeh, spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry, wrote on social media, Xinhua reported citing the official IRNA news agency.
The P5+1 countries (China, France, Russia, Britain and the US, plus Germany) negotiated the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program in 2015, before Washington under former US President Donald Trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement in 2018.
Read:| Biden repudiates Trump on Iran, ready for talks on nuke deal
There is currently "only Iran and P4+1", Khatibzadeh noted.
On Thursday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his counterparts from Britain, Germany and France discussed the Iranian nuclear issue and called on Tehran not to limit inspections of its nuclear facilities by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
