Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said, on Thursday, that Iran and the United States are not far from reaching a good and lasting agreement on the nuclear file, while an Iranian military commander said that those he called enemies offered Tehran concessions if it abandoned revenge for the former Quds Force commander Qassem. Soleimani.
In statements reported by the Iranian news agency, Abdullahian added that messages are exchanged between him and the Americans through the European Union, stressing that there is no retreat from his country's red lines.
The head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, said Wednesday that the technical issues in the Vienna talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the major powers have been resolved, and that it is political issues that have so far prevented reaching an understanding.
In Washington, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said, commenting on the negotiations on Iran's nuclear program, that if Iran wants to lift sanctions that are not related to the nuclear agreement, it must address American concerns that are not related to the agreement as well, in reference to Iranian demands to remove the name of the Revolutionary Guards from the agreement. US Terror List.
Price expressed his conviction that an understanding of the nuclear deal can be reached very quickly if the Iranians are unwilling to resolve bilateral differences with the United States that are not related to the nuclear deal.
The US State Department spokesman said that Iran had to make a decision.
He pointed out that in the event of a return to the nuclear agreement, the United States will maintain and will severely use its powerful tools to deal with what he described as Iran's destabilizing activities and its support for terrorism and its terrorist proxies, as he put it.
Iran has been engaged in negotiations with the West for a year;
In an effort to bring the United States back to the 2015 agreement on Tehran's nuclear program, the agreement would allow the lifting of sanctions imposed on Tehran, allowing it to access its frozen funds abroad.
Banner with a large picture of Soleimani during a celebration in Tehran on the second anniversary of his assassination (European News Agency)
Soleimani's revenge
Meanwhile, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy, Major General Ali Reza Tangsiri, said that those he called enemies repeatedly send messages to Iran that they will make some concessions to it and raise some sanctions if it abandons revenge for the assassination of the former commander of the Quds Force in the Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, who He was killed in an American raid in Baghdad in early 2020.
Tangsiri added that these offers were mere illusions and that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei emphasized revenge for Soleimani.
The Iranian commander added that the commanders of the Revolutionary Guards stressed that revenge is inevitable, and that Iran will determine the location of this.
The former commander of the Quds Force was assassinated during the administration of former US President Donald Trump, who justified his killing by saying that he was behind the killing of a number of Americans, and that he sought to blow up the US embassy in Baghdad.