President Hassan Rouhani will visit Austria and Switzerland next month as part of Tehran’s intention to secure effective European backing for the 2015 nuclear agreement after the US pulled out of the deal in May.
Rouhani will visit Switzerland July 2-3 and then head to Vienna–home of the UN nuclear watchdog that monitors Iran's compliance with the accord, AFP reported.
Relations between Iran and Switzerland, which represents Iran's interests in the United States, have deepened in recent years, and Rouhani will be welcomed with full military honors, a statement from the Swiss presidency said.
Vienna played host to marathon talks that began in June 2013 and led to the signing in July 2015 of the deal aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
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