US Sees “Modest” Progress in Negotiations on Iranian Nuclear Deal

U.S notes possible progress in the talks on the nuclear agreement with Iran, but like the Europeans insisted on the “urgency” to conclude the talks.

“We have seen in recent days that modest progress could have been made during the latest discussions,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters the day after the Vienna negotiations resumed to salvage the 2015 agreement. on the Iranian nuclear program (or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, PAIC).

For Price, this progress is “too slow.” “It will soon be too late to return to mutual respect for the PAIC,” Price said.

“Both parties have to build on these advances in a constructive spirit and with conviction,” added Price, for whom it is “too early to say whether the advances are consistent.”

The spokesperson did not elaborate on what those advances consist of.

What is at stake in this new round of talks is to achieve the return of U.S to the pact, after abandoning it in 2018 and reinstating sanctions against Iran.

In addition, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, China and Russia are also part of the negotiations. The United States participates indirectly.

According to Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s representative to international organizations in Vienna, Tuesday’s meeting was “useful” and there is “unquestionable progress.”

The lifting of the sanctions is being “actively discussed” informally, Ulyanov added on Twitter.

European negotiators insisted in a statement on the “urgency” to conclude the negotiations, while Tehran it is “significantly” close to the amounts of uranium needed to make an atomic bomb.

There are “weeks and not months to close an agreement,” added the European representatives. “We are approaching the point where the Iranian nuclear escalation will have drained the JAPAN of its consistency.”

Europeans say Iran’s uranium enrichment level is dangerously close to the nuclear threshold, something Tehran denied on Saturday stating that it will not go above 60% even if negotiations for One.

“There is no precedent for a State that enriches (uranium) to 60% without having a nuclear weapon,” explained these negotiators.

For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Hosein Amir-Abdollahian, quoted by the country’s official agency, Irna, said on Tuesday that the negotiations are “on the right track.”

Ending US sanctions is the top priority for Tehranthe Iranian minister declared on Monday.

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