Before the resumption of talks with Iran to rescue the nuclear deal, the fronts hardened.
The US State Department announced that it would monitor the sanctions against Iran more closely.
To this end, a high-ranking delegation will be sent to the United Arab Emirates in the coming week.
There are indications that Emirati banks are not complying with the sanctions.
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Defense ministers of the United States and Israel’s US government circles also wanted to discuss possible military exercises in preparation for a scenario that would include the destruction of Iran’s nuclear facilities if diplomacy fails.
The seventh round of negotiations continued in Vienna on Thursday after an interruption of five days.
The EU diplomat Enrique Mora, who coordinates the talks, described it as a "very difficult undertaking" to bridge the deep differences.
Iran accelerated nuclear program
Moscow's ambassador to Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, spoke in a tweet of "tension and a certain amount of disappointment". The seventh round of negotiations is the first with the new Iranian government. Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian accused the contracting parties of not making any constructive proposals.
After the start of the seventh round of negotiations, disappointment had spread in the E3 countries Germany, France and Great Britain.
Senior E3 diplomats said they were concerned about the changes proposed by Iran to the text negotiated over the last six rounds of the Vienna talks.
Iran broke with almost all difficult compromises that had been agreed in tough negotiations and demanded substantial changes.
In the months in which the negotiations were interrupted, Iran accelerated its nuclear program.
The time window for an agreement is getting smaller.