• Diplomacy US and EU offer Iran a way of atomic dialogue

The head of the UN atomic agency has bought time in Tehran.

After hours of meetings in the Iranian capital,

Rafael Grossi

announced tonight an "understanding" that will allow "continuing with the necessary verification and observation activities" of the Iranian nuclear program "for a maximum of three months."

It is the time that observers estimate it will take to crystallize a path of dialogue between Iran and the US, promoted by Joe Biden's team but hampered by its sanctions.

Iran was scheduled to suspend voluntary compliance with the Additional Protocol to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) on Tuesday.

This meant leaving the

International Atomic Energy Organization

(IAEA) inspectors virtually blind to a number of critical nuclear sites.

It was the Iranians' response to the prolongation, under Joe Biden's baton, of the harsh sanctioning regime imposed by Donald Trump.

In a post-appointment statement from Grossi, who spoke in positive terms, the IAEA announced that Iran would continue to "fully and without limitation" fulfill its role in the NPT, "as before."

He did not delve into details.

A well-known Iranian journalist, based on unpublished sources, assured that Iran would not allow

inspectors access

to certain facilities nor would it give them access to the images of the cameras installed inside, but that, in the event of an agreement on the pact nuclear power plant to lift sanctions, it would hand over all this material to the inspectors.

In the eyes of the European signatories of the atomic agreement of 2015, the nuclear measures that Iran undertook a year after the arrival of the sanctions are not helping to achieve harmony, claiming the European submission to Trump's sanctioning pulse and taking refuge in an epigraph of also called PIAC which, in his opinion, allows him to waive his commitments to the agreement if the other party does the same.

"During this time the Europeans told us that yes, that they had not placed embargoes on us, but that's good, that they were forced to bow to the reality of the US blockade," Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister

Abbas Araghchi

emphasized in a recent interview.

, calling the European signatories 'powerless'.

In 2018, European companies cut ties with Iran for fear of retaliation from the US, or difficulties transferring funds or shipping freight due to sanctions.

For Tehran, that amounted to breaching the European part of the pact, which limited the Iranian nuclear program to peaceful purposes in exchange for the rest lifting all sanctions imposed until 2015. As a result, the Iranian government slightly increased the levels of uranium enrichment. -the agreement did not allow it to exceed 3.67% -, not to export the surplus of nuclear fuel and to install more centrifuges.

The election of a tougher parliament on the West a year ago, the worsening economy under sanctions, an attack on an Iranian nuclear facility and the assassination of a nuclear scientist led the House to pass a major ordeal in September. of legislation.

Although the so-called Strategic Law for the Lifting of Sanctions received criticism from the Executive, who warned that going too far with the measures could have adverse effects, the Cabinet approved them.

Yesterday, the Foreign Minister,

Mohamad Javad Zarif

, explained in an interview that, as of tomorrow, the inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will not be able to receive the recordings of the observation cameras that they have installed in nuclear sites .

"All our steps [against the nuclear agreement] are reversible [...]. The action of February 23 does not mean abandoning the agreement," added Zarif, ensuring that his country is open to dialogue as long as Washington lifts its sanctions first. , and as long as it returns to the channel of the agreement signed with Obama.

But refusing, as some voices outside of Iran demand, to negotiate a cut to its controversial ballistic missile program.

The Iranians suspect that this demand is the reason for the slowdown in a return to PIAC, and the fall on empty ears of its proposal for "compliance by compliance" in a synchronized de-escalation coordinated by Josep Borrell as head of the PIAC joint commission .

But the so-called E3, the three European countries that signed the nuclear agreement - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - have this week sided with the United States, criticizing the latest measures adopted by Iran, and warning of the risks of those announced.

After the IAEA announcement,

a three-month countdown

begins

to reach an understanding that prevents another surge in tension.

Urgent mobilization to save the pact

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Last Thursday, Washington reached out for diplomacy with Iran;

this Sunday, the

White House

National Security

adviser

assured CBS that "we have begun to communicate with the Iranians on the issue" of a series of prisoners in Iran with foreign passports that the US considers "hostages" for political reasons.

Tehran was quick to clarify that there is no direct contact with Washington, but through the Swiss embassy, ​​representing its interests in the Iranian Islamic Republic since the Revolution.

On the same day, a source assured the newspaper 'The Times' that US President

Joe Biden

is considering easing certain sanctions to facilitate dialogue.

Signs of a complex de-escalation process that could begin with the "informal dialogue" to which Josep Borrell has invited Iranians and Americans in the framework of the nuclear pact.

Tehran remains reluctant to such an appointment.

He insists that any formal contact must be preceded by a lifting of sanctions.

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