Iranian flexibility in nuclear talks?
The Wall Street Journal reported today (Saturday) that the Islamic Republic has complied with the request of the EU's coordinator to revive the 2015 agreement, Enrique Moreh, and he will be invited to Tehran to discuss a possible compromise for the impasse between Iran and the powers. The agreement.
This is apparently a visit that will discuss the possibility of preventing the explosion of the eighth round of talks taking place in Vienna, which is stuck because of an issue unrelated to the clauses of the agreement - the Iranian demand to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the US State Department's terror list.
A teacher recently visited Washington and according to reports from Western sources who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, the Americans made it clear that they do not intend to accede to Iran's request to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list, which was introduced during the previous president Donald Trump's policy. Iran which also led to the withdrawal of the US from the agreement.
If the reports are correct, the visit is likely to indicate Iran's willingness to consider alternative US proposals so that a successful conclusion of the eighth round of talks in Vienna can be announced.
However, it is likely that Iran will demand that the issue of the Revolutionary Guards be discussed in another framework and perhaps even immediately after the conclusion of the agreement.
The Iranians are changing attitudes.
Ali Bagri Kani, Photo: AFP
The Iranian news agency Nur also confirmed that a teacher will arrive in the coming days.
"This trip is an important step in the productive discussions on the few but important issues that remain [unresolved] in the round of discussions in Vienna," the agency tweeted.
EU Foreign Policy and Security Coordinator Joseph Burrell told the Financial Times that a teacher's mission was to reach a "middle ground" that would allow the last barriers to be lifted so that the eighth round of talks, still officially but professionally over, ended. Will end successfully, after more than a year of discussions and rounds in the Austrian capital.
"Iran is very hesitant," Burrell said of Iran's willingness to move toward the West.
"This is the last bullet in the cartridge," he described the mission.
Among other things, he would suggest that a Revolutionary Guards organization be officially removed from the terrorist list, but specific parts of it, such as a Quds Force responsible for militia and terrorist organizations in the Middle East in various battlefields, including Iraq and Syria, be included in the list.
Over the weekend, State Department spokesman Ned Price said any nuclear deal reached would not hurt the U.S.'s ability to act with Iran on nuclear - related issues, that is, to impose sanctions on its terrorist activities and undermine regional stability.
However, Iran's insistence that the organization be removed from the list in its entirety, and its refusal to give the United States a parallel waiver in the form of a public commitment to prevent harm to US officials as revenge for the assassination of Quds Qassem Suleimani, has so far led to a deadlock in the eighth round. .
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