The United States will "
not be
able
to accept
" that Iran continues to block negotiations to save the Iranian nuclear deal while developing its atomic program, as it is currently doing, a senior American official warned on Saturday.
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However, Washington has not yet made the decision to slam the door of the indirect talks which resumed Monday in Vienna between Iranians and Americans, and hopes that Tehran will soon return to the negotiating table "
ready to negotiate seriously
", a he added. "
Iran has not shown the attitude of a country which is seriously thinking of a quick return
" in the 2015 agreement supposed to prevent it from acquiring the atomic bomb, said this senior official back from the Austrian capital.
According to him, while the United States has shown "
patience
" for the past five months, during the suspension of negotiations which started in April but ended in June due to the election of a new president Iranian ultraconservative, the Islamic Republic has in fact "
continued to accelerate its nuclear program in a provocative manner
".
And when she finally returned to Vienna on Monday, "it
was with proposals which returned to all the compromises proposed by Iran
" from April to June, in order to "
benefit from all the compromises made by others and in particular the United States, and demand more,
”he lamented. "
We cannot accept a situation in which Iran is accelerating its nuclear program while dragging its feet in its nuclear diplomacy,
" insisted the official, reiterating a warning from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
"
We do not know when the coordinator
" of the 2015 agreement, that is to say the representative of the European Union, "
will reconvene the discussions, but frankly, this date, the date of the resumption interests us much less than knowing if Iran will come back with a serious attitude
, ”he added. At this point, the United States therefore wants to continue on the path of diplomacy, while reaffirming that "
other tools
" are at their disposal in case of failure.
Under the presidency of Donald Trump, Washington withdrew from this agreement and reinstated its sanctions against Tehran, which in response gradually freed itself from restrictions on its nuclear program.
Current US President Joe Biden has said he is ready to return to the deal if Iran returns to its commitments.
