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In contrast to Tehran, which has kept the nuclear negotiations secret since the beginning of the last round of the Vienna negotiations, the American media reported, quoting officials in President Joe Biden's administration, that Iran had made concessions on sensitive issues in order to reach an agreement on the nuclear file.

CNN quoted a US official as saying that Iran had abandoned another major demand related to nuclear inspections as negotiations continued, explaining that reports that Washington had accepted or considered new concessions to Iran were categorically wrong.

On the Iranian side, the adviser to the Iranian negotiating delegation in Vienna, Muhammad Marandi, denied that his country had made concessions in order to revive the nuclear agreement, stressing that the text of the potential agreement would reveal to the world the party that abandoned most of its demands in the Vienna nuclear negotiations.

Marandi denied that his country had made concessions to revive the nuclear agreement (Iranian press)

American concessions

Marandi explained to Al Jazeera Net that the American side had made great concessions since the beginning of the nuclear negotiations, especially with regard to guarantees not to withdraw from the nuclear agreement again or to veto that.

He stressed that Tehran has succeeded in preserving its technical and infrastructure achievements in its nuclear facilities in light of the United States' abandonment of its demand to dismantle aspects of the Iranian nuclear program.

Marandi added that "the text that is being studied these days has witnessed a radical change at various levels compared to the American demands eight months ago, especially regarding maintaining a range of its sanctions on Iran, as Washington agreed at the end of the demands to lift the sanctions on Tehran."

In response to a question about whether Tehran had already given up its demands to close contentious issues with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the adviser to the Iranian negotiating delegation said that no possible agreement would be implemented before this file was closed.

Marandi described the American talk about Iranian concessions in the nuclear negotiations as a flight forward, and it comes in the context of preparing the American public opinion and convincing opponents of the nuclear agreement in the United States.


Revolutionary Guards and Terror List

Marandi stressed that removing the name of the Revolutionary Guards from the "list of terrorist organizations" was not an Iranian precondition for completing the nuclear agreement, but he linked his country's keeping the US Central Command (Centcom) on its list of terrorist organizations and removing the Revolutionary Guards from the US list of terrorist organizations.

And Mohammad Jamshidi, the assistant head of the Iranian presidential office, had revealed that removing the name of the Revolutionary Guards from the terrorist list was an American proposal in the first place.

Jamshidi wrote in a tweet on Twitter, "The United States has again proposed removing the Revolutionary Guards from the terrorist list, provided that Iran forgets the killers of the former commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani, but Iran rejected this proposal," adding that Washington submitted 3 other times a proposal to secure its forces. But it eventually backed down after Iran rejected all these proposals, he said.

For his part, Abbas Aslani, a researcher at the Middle East Center for Strategic Studies, considered showing flexibility by the negotiating parties one of the basics of any negotiating process to bring views closer, stressing that his country did not abandon its demands in the nuclear negotiations, but rather removed some of them - including the removal of the Revolutionary Guards from the US terrorism list. - From the negotiating track to follow it outside the framework of the nuclear agreement.

In an interview with Al Jazeera Net, Aslani saw that the nuclear negotiations aimed at returning the United States to abide by its commitments in the Joint Action Plan, which it withdrew from in 2018, and that its return to the nuclear agreement constitutes the biggest retreat from its demands to expand it to include Tehran's regional policies and its missile program.

Aslani: Tehran has committed itself not to leak anything about US concessions (Al-Jazeera)

Flexibility and initiative

On the reason for the recent Iranian flexibility in the nuclear negotiations, researcher Aslani said that Tehran has achieved a large part of its demands, which it has always clung to during the negotiation period in Vienna.

He added, "It would have been better for the American side to talk about reaching solutions to Iranian concerns rather than describing them as concessions to sensitive demands," stressing that the initiatives made by Iran and the European Union contributed to bringing together views on the issue of American guarantees and the scope of sanctions that must be lifted. On the Iranian people, it cannot be described as an Iranian retreat from its basic demands.

Aslani added, however, that Tehran committed not to leak anything about US concessions, in order to ensure the success of the negotiations and revive the nuclear agreement, stressing that the dispute between his country and the International Atomic Energy Agency is political and stems from the dispute between Tehran and Washington, and that reviving the nuclear agreement will dispel these controversial issues.

He concluded by saying that Tehran is ready to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, but it requires not to politicize the file and to ensure that technical issues are resolved away from the allegations and allegations of the enemies of the nuclear agreement.