Iran Cannot Set New Conditions for Resuming Nuclear Talks: Germany

Iran Cannot Set New Conditions for Resuming Nuclear Talks: Germany
Workers are seen on a construction site in Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, on Nov. 10, 2019. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images
Reuters
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BERLIN—Germany would reject any Iranian demands for the United States to release frozen Iranian assets as a condition for nuclear talks to resume, Germany’s foreign ministry said on Monday.

“If here new conditions are being set by Iran for talks to be resumed, then we reject that,” a German foreign ministry spokesman said after Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s demand for assets worth 10 billion dollars to be released as a goodwill gesture.