Iranian nuclear: Tehran demands new concessions from the United States
The Iranian flag flying in Vienna, Austria, where the Iranian nuclear talks took place.
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Iran has sent its response on the nuclear issue to Josep Borell, the head of European diplomacy, while laying down its conditions.
This while the EU had affirmed that the text presented was "final" and that it was to be taken or left.
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Tehran's response, sent before midnight, demands further concessions from the United States.
“
Iran has expressed concern over several outstanding issues.
These are not issues that Westerners could not settle.
We are closer to an agreement, but until these problems have been resolved, the job is not finished
, "said Seyed Mohammad Marandi, the adviser to the Iranian negotiating team, reports our correspondent at Tehran, Siavosh Ghazi.
As early as yesterday, the head of Iranian diplomacy Hossein Amir Abdollahian had specified that the Americans had shown flexibility orally on two of the three outstanding issues, but that Iran wanted guarantees that Washington would not leave again -
as it did in May 2018
- the
July 2015 nuclear deal
.
Clearly, this means that nothing is final yet.
Especially since the spokesman for the State Department, Ned Price, reacted by affirming that Tehran should give up its “
superfluous
” demands.
With the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis as winter approaches and considerable progress in its nuclear program, Tehran believes that it is in a position of strength and wants to obtain the maximum concessions from the United States and the European countries before any agreement.
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After several months of deadlock, discussions
resumed on August 4 in the Austrian capital
for yet another attempt to save, under the aegis of the EU, the international agreement concluded in 2015 between Iran and on the other, the United States, Great Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia.
On July 26, the head of European diplomacy and coordinator for the Iranian nuclear dossier, Josep Borrell, submitted a draft compromise and called on the parties involved in the talks to accept it in order to avoid a “dangerous crisis”.
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