Iranian nuclear: United States joins talks
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price in Washington, March 31, 2021. REUTERS - POOL
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The United States announced on Friday its participation next week in Vienna in talks with the major powers signatories to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, while remaining "open" to "direct" discussions with Iran .
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The United States will participate next Tuesday in Vienna in indirect talks, for the moment, but which will bring together all the signatories of the agreement - Iran, United States, China, Russia, France, United Kingdom and Germany - while remaining "
Open
" to "
direct
"
discussions
with Iran, US diplomacy spokesman Ned Price announced on Friday.
"
The main topics that will be discussed are the nuclear measures that Iran must take to fully comply with the terms
" of the
2015 international agreement
, "
and the sanctions lifting measures that the United States must take for them. respect again too,
”he said.
The spokesperson for the US State Department warned that the United States did not expect "
an immediate breakthrough
" but rather "
difficult discussions
".
“
But we think this is a healthy step forward
,” he added.
"
These talks will be structured around working groups formed by the European Union with participants still members
" of the agreement, "
including Iran
".
This is an important step because, in fact, we see that the two players in the file, therefore the United States and Iran, agree to renegotiate the obstacles that are currently on the nuclear agreement, but this t is a first step which needs to be concretized thereafter.
We are in fact at the start of a new process.
Jonathan Piron, Iranian researcher and specialist at the Etopia Institute
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The major powers still members of the agreement supposed to prevent Iran from acquiring an atomic bomb held a virtual meeting organized by the
European Union with Tehran on
Friday
.
It was the first since the election of Joe Biden in the United States, which was however not represented, the Iranians at this stage refusing a direct meeting with the enemy country.
Former US President Donald Trump withdrew his country from the deal in 2018 and reinstated all US sanctions against Iran, which in turn began to free itself from restrictions on its nuclear program.
The new American president, he said he was ready to return to the agreement if Tehran also returns to the nails of its commitments, but the two countries are passing the buck as to who will have to take the first step.
Iran calls for the lifting of US sanctions as the signatories of the agreement call on Tehran to stop overstepping the red lines provided for in the 2015 nuclear compromise.
The stages in fact they are quite clear on the Iranian side.
We recently saw that there was uranium enrichment which had been raised to levels which had been raised beyond the nuclear agreement, so it is back to a level as it is. allowed by the agreement [...] For the United States, the measures are a little more numerous because there were a lot of sanctions that were put in place by the former Trump administration.
Jonathan Piron, Iranian researcher and specialist at the Etopia Institute
(
With
AFP)
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