On Tuesday night, Iran sent the EU its “final conclusions” on the existing text of the treaty on reviving the nuclear deal.

It is now up to the United States to show "realism and flexibility" so that a final agreement can be reached.

Tehran did not provide details of the text sent to the EU.

The EU acts as a moderator at the nuclear talks in Vienna.

Rainer Herman

Editor in Politics.

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Josep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, presented "a final text" on August 8 after four days of negotiations at expert level and sent it to the governments involved in the 2015 agreement.

The document lists steps to return to the 2015 agreement, which then US President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018 and which subsequently also violated Iran.

A "deal" could be signed if the response from the capitals was positive, Borrell wrote on Aug. 8.

The Iranian leadership discussed this matter at the highest level on Monday, according to Tehran.

Around midnight local time, the text containing the Iranian position was transmitted to Borrell.

It was "Iran's offer on the outstanding issues for a final conclusion of the JCPOA revival talks," Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Monday.

Now it depends on what reaction the United States shows.

The American side has verbally agreed to two proposals offered by Iran, Abdollahian said.

That must now be converted into a text.

The coming days are important days.

Tehran is ready to reach a conclusion through a meeting of foreign ministers.

A final agreement, however, presupposes that Iran's "red lines" are respected.

From his statements and those of Mohammad Marandi, the spokesman for the Iranian delegation in Vienna, it can be gathered that Iran only partially agrees with Borrell's proposals.

Tehran is demanding guarantees that the lifting of American sanctions will be sustainable so that Iran can benefit from the revival of the agreement.

Another obstacle is that Iran wants to be removed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklist.

It is an international institution that monitors the fight against money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the financing of weapons of mass destruction.

Since the United States left the agreement, they are not sitting at the negotiating table in Vienna.

However, they are indirectly involved in the talks.