In an interview with the "Beyond the News" program (29/11/2021), he said that the seventh round of the Vienna talks serves as a test for the expectations of all parties, noting that Israel is used to threats and intimidation of the situation, because it does not want to break its nuclear monopoly in the Middle East. Therefore, it is working to carry out sabotage operations against Iranian nuclear facilities, and is working to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists.
He went on to say that US President Joe Biden does not want Iran to be a nuclear state during his rule, so he may work to gradually lift sanctions in return for Iran's commitment to some of the conditions imposed on it, despite the different American position from the European one.
He explained that European countries were rejecting the US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement, but there is Iranian disappointment with Europe because it did not respond to Tehran's demands, and did not convince the US administration to lift the sanctions imposed on it.
remove penalties
The senior researcher at Al Jazeera Center for Studies and an expert on Iranian affairs, Fatima Al-Smadi, said that Iran is heading towards these negotiations with several determinants;
The first is that these are not nuclear negotiations, but rather negotiations to remove sanctions.
The negotiating team also takes into account that the progress made in Iran after the US withdrawal from the nuclear agreement was a lot, especially with regard to uranium enrichment, so there are nuclear achievements that have become a reality in Tehran.
She added that the team participating in the negotiations is convinced that the sanctions, with their American goals, have failed and did not achieve the goals of the US administration, the most important of which was the collapse of the Iranian economy from within.
Regarding the oil file, Al-Smadi made it clear that Iran had previously announced that it would return to oil production for the same production before the US sanctions, so it moves in a broader scope than the logic of a step-by-step approach pursued by America.
It is noteworthy that the seventh round of talks to return to the Iranian nuclear agreement resumed between Tehran and the "4 + 1" group, amid Iranian insistence on lifting sanctions, and providing guarantees of Washington's commitment to the agreement, in the event of a return to it.
For its part, Israel called on the major powers participating in the Vienna talks not to give in to what it called "Iran's nuclear blackmail."
And according to what Reuters quoted the Russian representative at the Vienna talks as saying, the first meeting of the seventh round of negotiations to return to the Iranian nuclear agreement ended successfully.
The European Union coordinator in the talks also confirmed his optimism about what he witnessed in the meeting, and what he sensed of the desire for a serious dialogue with the new Iranian government, as he put it.