An official in the US administration revealed that Iran has made concessions on sensitive issues in order to reach an agreement on the nuclear file, while Israeli officials are expected to meet with their counterparts in Washington in order to talk about the agreement and their position on it.

CNN quoted the US official as saying that Iran has abandoned another major demand related to nuclear inspections as negotiations continue, explaining that reports that Washington has accepted or is considering new concessions to Iran are categorically wrong.

The same source added that if an agreement is reached on the nuclear file with Iran, Tehran will have to take important steps to dismantle its nuclear program, and it will be prevented from enriching and storing uranium above very limited levels, as it will not be allowed to maintain the 20 and 60 percent enriched uranium it stores today.

He went on to say that the deal would require removing thousands of advanced centrifuges operated by Iran, including all of the machines at the Fordow facility.

The US official explained that even if Iran left the agreement and sought a nuclear weapon, it would take at least 6 months to do so.

CNN added, according to US officials, that neither the demands related to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards nor the IAEA's investigations were included in the text of Iran's response last week to the draft nuclear agreement proposed by the European Union.

Axios website quoted a US official as saying that restrictions on the Iranian nuclear program, if the new agreement is signed, will continue until 2031.

He added that under the new agreement, Iran would not be able to store more than 300 kg of uranium, and would not be able to enrich it to a level above 3.67%.


gaps

In the same context, Reuters quoted a US official as saying that gaps still exist between Tehran and Washington, and that it was not clear whether an agreement would be reached to return to the nuclear agreement.

The US official told Reuters that Iran has abandoned key conditions for reviving the nuclear deal, including ending investigations by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

For his part, the European Union's foreign and security policy chief Josep Borrell said that most countries involved in the nuclear negotiations agreed with the EU's proposal.

Borrell added that he had not yet received the American response to the European proposal, but indicated that he was looking forward to it this week.

Borrell had stated that the Iranian response to the European proposal was reasonable.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said the United States was working as quickly as possible to provide an appropriate response to Iran's proposals for the nuclear deal.

After Iranian accusations that the United States was stalling in the nuclear negotiations, Price added that the nuclear agreement is now closer than it was two weeks ago, stressing that there are outstanding issues.

As for the IAEA's investigations, Price said it was a fundamental issue, not a political one.

He added that Tehran should respond to the agency's questions, stressing that his country's position in this regard will not change.

For his part, the Russian envoy to international organizations in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, said that the emergence of new problems in the negotiations to revive the nuclear agreement does not cause pessimism.

Ulyanov added in his Twitter account that the United States believes that there are some issues in the negotiations of the Iranian nuclear agreement that are still pending and that it needs more time to elaborate its position on them.

He pointed out that as soon as we approach the finish line in the nuclear negotiations, new problems appear, and that this has become a regular pattern.

In turn, the Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, revealed that the agency will not end the nuclear investigations in Iran.

Grossi added in an interview with "CNN" that the key to the issue lies in Iran's cooperation with the agency.


Israeli objection

In a parallel context, Israeli National Security Adviser Eyal Holata will meet in Washington today, Tuesday, with his American counterpart, Jake Sullivan, to discuss the issue of the nuclear agreement.

The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation also said that Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz will travel to Washington and meet with the US National Security Adviser.

Gantz stressed that Israel is not part of the upcoming nuclear agreement between Iran and Western powers, and stressed that his country would maintain freedom of action against Tehran whenever necessary.

He explained that Israel is in constant contact with its American partners and with other countries that Iran poses a threat to, according to the Israeli official.


Iranian position

As for the Iranian position, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Authority, Mohammad Eslami, expressed his hope that the Director of the Atomic Energy Agency would ignore what he described as the Israeli noise regarding the Iranian nuclear program.

Eslami added that it is useless to use what he described as the alleged nuclear sites paper as a tool of political pressure against Iran.

Regarding the documents submitted by the agency about what he called the alleged sites, he said that these documents are an Israeli fabrication, and they have been answered several times.

He stated that Iran will not accept that Israel's pressures and accusations are part of the agenda of the IAEA Director.

He pointed out that all nuclear activities come within the framework of the comprehensive safeguards agreement with the IAEA, and that these activities are subject to close supervision by the International Atomic Energy Agency, as he put it.

For his part, the adviser to the Iranian negotiating delegation in Vienna, Muhammad Marandi, said that removing the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations was not a prerequisite for the completion of the nuclear agreement.

He added in a tweet to him that Iran's nuclear program will not be dismantled, and no deal will be implemented before the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of directors closes the file of what he described as "finally false accusations" against his country's nuclear program.