Araqchi to Attend Online JCPOA Joint Commission Meeting

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Abbas Araqchi will be leading the Iranian delegation in the meeting of the 2015 nuclear deal’s Joint Commission scheduled for Dec. 16 via videoconference.
The upcoming webinar will be held at the level of Foreign Ministry deputies and political directors of the remaining parties to the agreement, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, namely Iran, China, Russia, the UK, France and Germany, ISNA reported. 
The Joint Commission meeting will be chaired on behalf of European Union High Representative Josep Borrell by Secretary-General of European External Action Service Helga Schmid.
JCPOA was signed in 2015 between Iran and six world powers, and endorsed by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
US President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled out of JCPOA in 2018 and restored sanctions that had been lifted under the deal.
As the remaining European parties have failed to fulfill their commitments toward the accord and compensate for Washington’s absence, Iran moved in May 2019 to scale back its JCPOA commitments.