Sources revealed that progress has been made regarding paying compensation to Tehran if the nuclear agreement is canceled, and the White House considered that the negotiations have been completed and that time is running out for Iran to accept the proposal, while Tehran mentioned its abandonment of the requirement to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorism.
Early on Friday, Bloomberg Agency quoted officials as saying that the US and Iranian delegations made progress during the talks that started in Vienna on paying compensation to Tehran if the nuclear agreement is canceled.
For his part, the Coordinator of Strategic Communications in the US National Security Council, John Kirby, said during the daily press conference of the White House, that the nuclear negotiations are almost complete, and that time is running out for Iran to accept the agreement on the table.
On the other hand, the adviser to the Iranian negotiating delegation in Vienna, Muhammad Marandi, told Al Jazeera that removing the Revolutionary Guards from the US list of terrorism was not a prerequisite.
Marandi made it clear that the Iranians want to be assured that Washington will fully abide by its commitments.
This comes after the Iranian news agency quoted a source in the negotiating delegation that Tehran has not abandoned the request to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the US terrorism list, and that it is linking the resumption of the implementation of the agreement with the US taking the right decision.
Talks to revive the nuclear deal have resumed, after a hiatus of nearly four months.
And Iran's representative to the United Nations, Majid Takht Ravanchi, had previously blamed the United States for the delay in reaching an agreement, noting that returning to the agreement this time would discuss the text submitted by the European Commissioner for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell, which details the lifting of sanctions, in addition to nuclear steps. necessary to restore the work of the 2015 agreement.
Doha meeting
On the sidelines of the ASEAN meetings held in Cambodia, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken discussed with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani the Iran file and regional security, where Blinken said that the talks are evidence of the close partnership between Washington and Doha to discuss a wide range of international and regional issues, including Including the file of Iran and Afghanistan and the security of the region.
In turn, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani stressed the importance of the partnership between the United States and the State of Qatar to ensure the security of the region.
And last June, the indirect talks brokered by the European Union between the Iranian and American delegations in Qatar ended without progress, and according to what Reuters quoted a US official after that, the chances of reviving the agreement diminished.
An Iranian official told Reuters that the Vienna talks would be "in the form of the Doha meeting", where the European Union envoy Enrique Mora shuttled between the two delegations, because Tehran refused to hold direct talks with Washington.