Negotiations on the US return to the nuclear deal between Iran and the international community have drawn up an advanced draft that could lead to a breakthrough in the coming days, although a number of key issues remain controversial.
According to the draft agreement reached by the Reuters news agency, Iran waived its demand that the United States remove the sanctions it imposed on Iranian oil exports as a precondition for reverting to the restrictions that Tehran undertook under the nuclear agreement. Later of the implementation of the new agreement, after verifying the full implementation of the first stages of the agreement.
According to the draft, in the first phase of the implementation of the agreement to return to the original nuclear agreement, Iran will suspend all uranium enrichment operations on its part beyond the 5% level.
In response to the US leaving the nuclear deal and imposing heavy economic sanctions on the part of the Trump and Biden governments, Tehran violated its obligation in the agreement to limit uranium enrichment to 3.67% and moved to 60% uranium enrichment, which is not far from the level required for nuclear bomb production.
Iranian President Rouhani on tour of nuclear facilities, Photo: Reuters
At the same time as reducing uranium enrichment activity, South Korean banks will thaw $ 7 billion worth of Iranian funds, which have been deposited and frozen due to the threat of US sanctions.
Another step in the first phase of the agreement to renew the agreement, will be the release of Western prisoners, who are being held in prisons in Iran.
The U.S. Coordinator for Iran Affairs, Robert Malay, insisted on the inclusion of this release in the first phase as a condition for concluding the agreement.
Only after all these steps are taken and the parties to the agreement ensure their full implementation will the main phase of the agreement begin which will include the gradual removal of US sanctions on Iran until a complete return to the implementation of the original 2015 nuclear agreement on all nuclear restrictions and economic relief.
While the representatives of the Western powers involved in the negotiations on the US return to the nuclear agreement estimate that the negotiations have reached a decisive stage and in a few days the talks can be concluded successfully or unsuccessfully, Iran's spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a statement in support of the Iranian delegation. In Vienna, this support is extremely important in light of the Iranian fold that emerges from reports of progress in the negotiations.
Joe Biden // Photo: Reuters,
Iran's opening position with the resumption of negotiations under President Raisi's administration was that it would not agree to the gradual removal of US sanctions in exchange for a uranium enrichment restriction. Her independence.
"Our enemies do not want us to succeed in the field of civilian energy. Sooner or later we will need civilian nuclear energy. If we do not work to achieve it, our independence will be harmed," Khamenei stressed.
The Iranian spiritual leader stressed that alongside the diplomatic efforts of the Vienna negotiating team to "get rid" of US sanctions, Iran's main goal remained to "neutralize" the effects of sanctions on the Iranian economy in other ways.
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