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With the arrival of Joe Biden at the White House, the deal with Iran on nuclear power could get a second wind.

To succeed in this delicate rescue mission, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs on Monday asked the European Union to mediate between his country and the United States.

"There can clearly be a mechanism to either synchronize" the return of the two countries in the focus of the agreement, "or to coordinate what can be done," Mohammad Javad Zarif said on CNN International.

According to him, the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell can "put on his hat as coordinator of the joint commission" for monitoring the 2015 agreement "and choreograph the measures that must be taken by the United States and the measures that must be taken by Iran ”.

Exclusive: As Secretary of State Blinken warns Iran may be just weeks away from producing enough nuclear material for a bomb, I speak with Iran's Foreign Minister @JZarif about a possible revival of the nuclear deal - and who might move first.

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The Vienna agreement signed by Tehran with the great powers (United States, China, Russia, Germany, France, United Kingdom) as well as the EU aimed to prevent the Islamic Republic from acquiring the atomic bomb.

The international community had in return lifted all its economic sanctions against Iran.

But former US President Donald Trump withdrew Washington in 2018 and reinstated and then tightened US sanctions.

Biden's conditions

Since then, the Europeans have been trying "to find the means for the United States to return to the agreement and for Iran to fully respect its commitments", a spokesperson for the United Nations once again declared on Monday. European Commission, before the Iranian minister formulates his proposal.

Joe Biden for his part promised to join this text again, but on condition that Tehran first comes back to the nails of its nuclear restrictions, from which it has started to free itself.

However, Iranian diplomacy had so far demanded that the Biden administration take the first step, by lifting the sanctions before anything else.

Mohammad Javad Zarif's proposal seems to open the door for the first time to a “synchronized” process, even if he reaffirms that the Americans, who have left the agreement, must first “demonstrate their good faith”.

"Timing is not the problem"

In an interview with the American channel NBC broadcast on Monday, the new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken estimated that it would take "some time" for Iran to come back in the nails, then another "some time" for the United States "assess whether they have kept their commitments".

"The timing is not the problem," replied his Iranian counterpart.

According to him, some limits can be respected again "in less than a day", "others can take a few days or weeks, but it will not take longer than it takes for the United States to apply decrees. presidential elections ”to lift the sanctions.

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