Al-Jazeera correspondent quoted an Iranian official as saying that Tehran sent its response to the Europeans regarding their proposal to return to the nuclear agreement, while the Iranian "ISNA" agency quoted an informed source as saying that Tehran is waiting for a response to its proposals from the opposite party within two days.

For his part, the adviser to the Iranian negotiating delegation, Mohammad Marandi, said that the remaining outstanding issues are not difficult to resolve, and that he does not believe that the collapse of the agreement is possible at this stage.

On the other hand, US State Department spokesman, Ned Price, said that the only way for a joint return to the nuclear agreement with Iran is for it to abandon its demands outside the agreement.

Price added in a press conference that those demands have no place in the nuclear talks.


The US spokesman stressed his country's readiness to return to the nuclear agreement with Iran if Tehran was ready for that, and warned that Washington would increase its economic and diplomatic pressure on Tehran if it refused to return to the agreement.

Price added that diplomacy is the best way to put limits on Tehran's nuclear program.

He explained that his country shares the European Union's foreign and security policy chief Josep Borrell's opinion that what can be negotiated in the Iranian nuclear file has been completed.

He said that the United States will present its views on the final draft text of the European Union to save the 2015 nuclear agreement in private and directly to Borrell, noting that Washington will not reveal its response to the European proposal.

Iranian demands

Tehran had announced that it would respond to the European proposal by midnight on Monday, stressing the possibility of reaching the nuclear agreement soon, but it conditioned this on the flexibility of the US position and the fulfillment of its demands to lift sanctions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that Washington had verbally agreed to two of his country's demands during the Vienna negotiations, considering that the verbal consent should be converted into a clear and binding official text.

Abdullahian affirmed that his country requests an explicit and clear text of its demands to return to the nuclear agreement (French).

Abdullahian added, "We have reached the beginning of the end for concluding the agreement, but that depends on the US position," stressing that his country will respond to the "final" text of the European Union on the nuclear deal by midnight on Monday.

He considered that the other side is talking about an alternative plan in case the agreement fails, and that his country has an alternative plan as well, stressing the need for a clear mechanism to verify the lifting of sanctions in any agreement that is reached.

The Iranian foreign minister revealed that his country exchanges messages with Washington on 3 issues, and said, "We have shown flexibility in the nuclear negotiations and it is time for Washington to be flexible."

The minister believed that Washington should show useful flexibility, as it is on the threshold of midterm elections and suffers from a severe fuel problem, as he put it.

lift sanctions

In turn, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Monday morning that there has been a relative development in the negotiations of the nuclear agreement, but it has not achieved all of his country's demands, stressing that they are waiting for the lifting of sanctions.

Kanaani added, in an interview with reporters, that there is a possibility that Iran will sign the agreement in the coming days if its demands are respected.

Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said on Sunday that an agreement to revive the Iranian nuclear agreement might be reached within a few days, if things develop positively.

He added that the European Union coordinators had made several amendments to the currently proposed text, and that "it seems that the United States has agreed, while Iran has not yet determined its position on the text."