News - Middle East: Iran’s foreign minister says the country uses its own tools in the face of the other side’s excessive demands during negotiations on restoring the 2015 Iran deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in the Austrian capital.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on Sunday after attending a hearing session of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy to answer questions about the latest developments surrounding the diplomatic row over Iran’s nuclear program.

Amir-Abdollahian said that during the talks, Tehran “has offered its initiatives and ideas on a logical basis whenever it was treated in a logical way by the other side.”

“Every time that the opposite side put forth excessive demands during the [Vienna talks], we used the country’s own tools and power, so that they would understand that the interests and welfare of the Iranian nation were important to us and that we will continue our efforts to this end,” Iran’s top diplomat added.

Iran’s foreign minister expressed hope that the measures meant to get all the negotiating parties to return to the JCPOA, would be taken in such a way that Iran’s power and demands as well as people’s expectations are taken into consideration.

“While emphasizing the need to completely protect the rights of the country in international arena, our people expect us to do so while respecting all the red lines,” Amir-Abdollahian said.