Iran will exchange nuclear monitoring for lifted sanctions, says its foreign minister

The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, is urging European powers to ‘change course’ and help forge a new nuclear deal. Photograph: Alexander Kazakov/AP

Iran is ready to form a real and lasting agreement that includes strict monitoring and limits on its domestic uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, its foreign minister, Seyyed Abbas Araghchi, has said.

But, writing for the Guardian, he urges the European nations to change course and abandon their plan to snapback a wide array of UN sanctions at the end of the month.