Borrell’s displacement came at a time of deadlock in talks launched in April 2021 between Iran and major powers Russia, the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany.
The dialogue aims to get the United States to return to the international agreement reached in 2015 to limit the Iranian nuclear program.
Washington unilaterally withdrew from the pact in 2018 during the Donald Trump administration, and Iran progressively disassociated itself from its commitments.
The 2015 deal eased crippling sanctions against Iran in exchange for a curb on its nuclear program. The great powers accuse Tehran of seeking to acquire an atomic bomb, despite its version that it is only for civilian purposes.
“The main objective of my visit is to break the current dynamic, that is, the dynamic of escalation” and end the deadlock in the talks, Borrell declared during a press conference, in which he announced that the dialogue would will resume “in the next few days”.
“When I say in the next few days, I mean quickly and immediately,” he stressed.