Irish foreign minister to meet Iran's Rouhani on nuclear deal

FILE PHOTO: Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, December 11, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/Pool

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney is to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Sunday in his role as a U.N. Security Council facilitator of the nuclear deal agreed in 2015 between Iran and major world powers.

Iran has so far refused to take part in a meeting brokered by the European Union between world powers and the United States on reviving its 2015 JCPOA nuclear deal.