Washington and Tehran... Is the critical hour approaching in order to return to the nuclear agreement?

The Director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, Barbar Slavin, expressed her optimism at the possibility of signing the nuclear agreement, especially after the European side confirmed that the American and Iranian parties had submitted acceptable comments on the European draft.

In her speech to an episode of "From Washington 25/22222", Slavin believes that US President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party with him are in a position of strength that enables him to support the nuclear agreement with Iran, and she said that his popularity is on the rise, and that he has not made major concessions from order to revive the agreement.

It also revealed that Israel and its security establishment do not reject the nuclear agreement, which is in the interests of Washington and Tehran.

As for journalist and political analyst Saeed Erekat, he pointed out that things are heading towards signing the nuclear agreement, because the alternatives for the Americans are very dangerous, but he talked about obstacles related to members of the Republican Party who oppose returning to the nuclear agreement that former President Donald Trump exited from.

Unlike Barbar, Erekat pointed to the division of the security establishment in Israel over the nuclear agreement with Iran;

There are those who want it and there are those who do not, but he ruled out that Israel would be able to target the Iranian nuclear program, which he said is spread over about 5,000 sites, stressing that only the United States of America can do that, and it does not want to wage a new war in the region, but rather wants Deployment of missile systems to the Arabs and Israel in the region.

Professor of Political Science and International Relations Khalil al-Anani stressed that the situation for Biden is "a bad agreement is better than no agreement", because the US president had put this file among his priorities, and because not signing the agreement means Iran has nuclear weapons, and the possibility of a war in the region preoccupies the United States. The United States is more than preoccupied with the war in Russia and Ukraine.

He believed that Washington and Tehran are keen to sign the agreement, according to the conditions and requirements of each party, and that the talk is about Iran making concessions to the American party regarding the issue of guarantees and the demand to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the American list of terrorist organizations, noting that the Iranian side has its red lines related to the role of the International Agency. of atomic energy in the nuclear program and the issue of lifting sanctions immediately and not gradually.

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On the impact of Ukraine’s war on the negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement, al-Anani indicated that it is in Washington’s interest to cool the nuclear file with Iran in order to devote itself to other files, especially the unprecedented tension in relations between it and China over the Taiwan issue, in addition to reassuring European allies who They depend on Russia for energy for 40%.

The episode of the “From Washington” program used reports by Al-Jazeera correspondents in Washington and Vienna, and Al-Jazeera correspondent in Tehran Noureddine Daghir spoke about the silence on the part of Iran so far, and said that the Iranians do not want to be over-optimistic because the remaining points of contention are important, especially the issue of guarantees that Tehran requires. from Washington.

For his part, Al-Jazeera correspondent in Washington, Ahmed Hazeem, said that the US position focuses on the issue of Iran's commitment to its obligations and its refusal to remove the International Energy Agency from the inspection process, which is the basis of the ground on which to resume negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement signed in 2015.

While Al-Jazeera correspondent in Vienna Noureddine Bouziane confirmed that the matter is heading towards holding a new round of negotiations, but the Europeans fear the possibility of the negotiations returning to the ground zero in the negotiations.

Earlier this month, the European Union submitted a final settlement proposal, calling on Tehran and Washington, who are negotiating indirectly, to respond to it, hoping to culminate in talks that began a year and a half ago.