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Tehran (Iran), Jan 21 (EFE/EPA), (Camera: Abedin Taherkenareh).- Iranian President Hasan Rohani said Wednesday that the future of the nuclear deal is in the hands of the new US administration with Joe Biden and celebrated the end of the mandate of Donald Trump. FOOTAGE OF DAILY LIFE IN IRAN, ATMOSPHERE IN THE STREETS AND STORES.
Iran says that the preservation of a nuclear accord depends on the scheduled end in October of a UN arms embargo as the United States seeks to extend it. "The timetable for the removal of arms restrictions embodied in Resolution 2231 is an inseparable part of the hard-won compromise," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tells a Security Council session. SOUNDBITE
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow during a visit aimed at keeping the landmark 2015 nuclear deal alive in the wake of US President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US out. IMAGES
The White House denies that the unfreezing of $6 billion of Iranian funds to help secure the release of five US citizens was effectively a ransom payment. "This is not a payment of any kind. It's not ransom," says White House national security spokesman John Kirby, pushing back against criticism of the deal. SOUNDBITE
The EU's foreign policy chief says he is hopeful the Iran nuclear deal could be revived after receiving "reasonable" responses to his proposed text from Iran and the United States. "I am hoping that in the coming days we are not going to lose this momentum and we can close the deal" says Josep Borrell, at an informal meeing of EU foreign ministers in Prague. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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