Iran on Monday said there were several issues with the nuclear-deal draft text that the U.S. needs to address before Tehran can agree to it, saying it would detail its views by the end of the day.
The European Union had set Monday as the deadline for Iran, the U.S. and the other countries in the 2015 deal to say whether they would accept the deal or not, according to diplomats. The EU circulated last week what it called a “final text” on reviving the accord and sent the draft following four days of talks in Vienna, saying the 16 months of negotiations were now over.
Speaking to reporters in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian
said Iran would provide its “latest opinion” on the text to the EU over the next few days, but swerved clear of saying whether it would accept or reject the deal.
“We have shown flexibility on issues that we could and the American side understands this well,” he said. “It is now time for the American side to show flexibility.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has called for the U.S. to show flexibility.
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The U.S., Iran, Russia, China, the U.K., Germany and France have been negotiating the steps for restoring the 2015 nuclear accord for the last since spring 2021. President Biden has set reviving the pact, which placed tight but temporary restrictions on Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting most international sanctions on Iran, as a top foreign policy goal for his administration.
The EU has chaired the talks and is charged with crafting a text that all sides accept. Over the past couple of weeks, the negotiations have homed in on a couple of major Iranian demands. One is a guarantee that a U.N. atomic-agency probe into Tehran’s nuclear program should be closed down before the deal is revived. Secondly, that Iran is given sufficiently robust guarantees that it will receive the economic benefits intended…
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