Negotiations to try to save the nuclear deal Iranian, resumed on Monday in One, should lead to the lifting of US sanctions and the “guarantee” that Washington will return to the pact, according to Tehran.
After five months of interruption, the talks to save the international agreement on the Iranian nuclear program of 2015 resumed at the end of November in Vienna between the negotiating countries (Germany, France, United Kingdom, China, Iran Y Russia).
“The eighth round of Vienna negotiations has just started,” Alain Matton, a spokesman for the Vienna, tweeted Monday afternoon. European Union.
The agreement reached in 2015 allowed Tehran to lift part of the sanctions that suffocated its economy in exchange for a drastic reduction in its economy. nuclear program, under strict control of the HIM-HER-IT.
With this new round, the objective is to make the United States, which participates indirectly at the wish of Iran, return to the pact, that the administration Trump dropped out in 2018.
Iranian oil
“The most important thing for us is to reach a point where we can verify that Iranian oil is sold easily and without limits, that oil money comes in foreign currency to bank accounts Iranians, and that we can benefit from all the revenues in the different economic scenarios, “stated the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hosein Amir-Abdullahian.
“We have reached a common document on the nuclear program and on sanctions. The first negotiations (on this issue) will begin today,” he added.
The Iranian Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, Said Khatibzadeh, had advised “all the participants in the negotiations to come to Vienna with the will to achieve a good agreement”, since Iran refuses to “waste time and energy”.
He also recalled that the Iranian delegation “will focus on two issues: the lifting of sanctions and nuclear activity.”
“Time is running out”
The United States has warned Iran of his position against the continuation of the discussions, although for the moment he has not given an ultimatum.
There are only “a few weeks” left to salvage the Iranian nuclear deal if Iran continues to expand its atomic activities at the current rate, US negotiator Rob Malley noted last week, warning of a “crisis” in the event of a failed diplomacy.
Same tone from France, Germany and the United Kingdom (E3): “Time is running out. In the absence of rapid progress, given the rapid advance of Iran’s nuclear program, the agreement will soon become dead paper,” they warned. senior officials.
In response to the reestablishment of sanctions against it, Iran has gradually freed itself from the constraints imposed on its nuclear program, although it denies wanting to develop the atomic weapon.
Along these lines, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohamad Eslami, said on Saturday that Iran has no intention of enriching uranium to more than 60%, even if the negotiations fail.
The Russian ambassador to the UN in Vienna, Mijail Ulianov, called this statement a “positive message.”
For his part, the head of Israeli diplomacy, Yair Lapid, whose country fears that Iran, an enemy country, will equip itself with the atomic weapon, declared on Monday that “stopping Tehran’s nuclear program” is “the first challenge for Israel’s foreign and security policy.”
“We prefer to act through international cooperation, but if necessary, we will defend ourselves on our own,” he added.
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