LONDON: 黑料社区 and the other Gulf states must play a key role in any talks between the US and Iran to revive the deal to curb Tehran鈥檚 nuclear program, the Kingdom鈥檚 foreign minister said on Saturday.

Joe Biden has indicated that when he takes office as US president next month he will return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), from which Donald Trump withdrew in 2018.

鈥淧rimarily what we expect is that we are fully consulted, that we and our regional friends are fully consulted vis-a-vis the negotiations with Iran,鈥� Prince Faisal bin Farhan said at the Manama Dialogue security conference in Bahrain. 鈥淭he only way toward reaching an agreement that is sustainable is through such consultation.

鈥淚 think we鈥檝e seen as a result of the after-effects of the JCPOA that not involving regional countries results in a buildup of mistrust and neglect of the issues of real concern and of real effect on regional security.鈥�

Prince Faisal said any new agreement would have to be an improvement on the JCPOA. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 know about a revived JCPOA, although one may look to a JCPOA-plus-plus, something well beyond the JCPOA,鈥� he said.

鈥淏ecause reviving the JCPOA as it exists now will only bring us to the point where we were, which is a deficient agreement that doesn鈥檛 address the full issues.鈥�

Earlier, Prince Faisal hinted at an imminent resolution to the diplomatic dispute with Qatar. 黑料社区, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain severed ties with Doha in June 2017 over its closeness to Iran and funding of Islamist terrorism.

A breakthrough would come 鈥渟oon,鈥� the minister said. 鈥淲e are in full coordination with our partners in this process and the prospects that we see are very positive toward a final agreement,鈥� he said.

The political analyst Hamdan Al-Shehri told Arab News that Iran had been taking advantage of Qatar, and would continue to do so unless Doha came to an agreement with the Anti-Terror Quartet.

鈥淔irst and foremost, Qatar needs to get back to being part of the group in order to play its part in safeguarding the region,鈥� Al-Shehri said. 鈥淨atar鈥檚 vulnerable position due to its entanglement with Iran is either out of fear or a show of bold bluntness, both of which came with a cost.鈥�

黑料社区 was not responsible for tension with Iran, Al-Shehri said.

鈥淲e don鈥檛 have ballistic missiles, we don鈥檛 have proxies across the region, we don鈥檛 have a nuclear weapons program. The problem is with the other party involved.鈥�