US White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that no date has yet been set for the launch of the seventh round of the Vienna negotiations, and that the administration of President Joe Biden is looking forward to seeing what will result from the delegations' consultations with their capitals, stressing that Washington will move forward with the Vienna talks because it is in the interest of the United States and its security. nationalist.
The spokeswoman stressed that the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is the one who decides on the nuclear deal, not the president, as she put it.
In response to Iranian President-elect Ibrahim Raisi's statements that he does not want to meet his American counterpart, Psaki said that her country has no diplomatic relations with Tehran and there are no efforts for bilateral meetings at the level of leaders.
In Luxembourg, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said he had no reason to believe the new Iranian president would take a different stance on the Vienna negotiations.
At the conclusion of the meeting of European Union foreign ministers, Borrell said that the developments of the election of the new president of Iran and the ongoing negotiations in Vienna on the nuclear agreement were discussed.
Borrell had said earlier that reaching an agreement in Vienna was still difficult, and expressed his hope that the election of a new president in Iran would not affect the progress of negotiations.
My boss supports the negotiations
The Iranian president-elect had said, "The next government will support the negotiations on the nuclear agreement in Vienna, but it will not link Iran's future to it, and we will not accept that the negotiations be exhaustive."
Raisi added - in the first press conference after announcing his victory in the elections - that the Americans are the ones who withdrew from the nuclear agreement, and they must return to it first, and also that the Europeans did not implement what they committed to in the agreement, and the Iranian people demand that they implement what was agreed upon and not be subject to Washington's pressure .
He stressed that his administration is keen to "cancel all sanctions measures imposed on Iran," stressing that the world must realize that the policy of maximum pressure on Iran was not feasible, and that the situation changed after the presidential elections.
Additional Terms
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh had previously stated that the next round of Vienna negotiations on the nuclear agreement could be the final round, and said that his country would not accept additional conditions and would not retract its rights under the nuclear program.
Zadeh added that Tehran is optimistic about the results of the negotiations, but it will not rush to judge the issue, and pointed to the need for political decisions to be taken at this stage by the other parties so that it can be said that the negotiating process has reached its end, as he put it.
And the American news website Axios had indicated that the Biden administration had stated that it would like to reach an agreement with Iran to return to the nuclear agreement before the conservative president (Raisi) takes office next August, after winning the elections on Saturday.