Walla!'S senior US officials: No progress has been made in indirect negotiations with Iran in Qatar

According to senior US officials, Iranians have not shown a sense of urgency in the talks, re-raising old issues that were already agreed upon months ago and even raising new issues that are not at all related to the 2015 nuclear deal.

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29/06/2022

Wednesday, 29 June 2022, 19:00 Updated: 20:48

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After two days of indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran in Qatar through EU mediation, no progress has been made in attempts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and the impasse remains intact, senior US administration officials told Walla!

Nuclear talks in Vienna, November (Photo: Reuters)

why is it important:

• The talks in Qatar may be the last chance for the parties to reach a new nuclear deal before Iran's progress on the nuclear program and the restrictions it imposes on UN inspectors make it irrelevant.

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What they say:

• "The Iranians have not shown a sense of urgency, re-raising old issues that were already agreed upon months ago and even raising new issues that are not at all related to the 2015 nuclear deal," a senior U.S. administration official said.

• The senior US administration official added: "There has been a deal on the table for several months now. If there is a party that has to make these decisions it is the Iranians. This has been the situation for a long time."

The big picture:

• The indirect talks have been stagnant for more than three months amid Iranian demand that the United States remove the Revolutionary Guards from the US terror list.

• Talks resumed following a meeting of EU Foreign Minister Joseph Burrell with Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian on Saturday in Tehran.

Behind the Scenes:

• US Iranian envoy Rob Mali and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagri held indirect talks in Qatar on Tuesday and Wednesday.

  A senior EU official conveyed the messages between the two sides.

• A source close to the contents of the talks noted that the American negotiating team arrived at Doha with very low expectations about what he was going to hear from the Iranians. The sources noted that the low expectations turned out to be accurate.

• The Iranian news agency Tasnim, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, said no progress had been made in the talks and blamed the United States for this.

  According to the report, the United States has refused to give Iran guarantees regarding the economic gain that Iran will gain if it returns to the nuclear deal.

• A report by Tasnim said that it was "the weakness of the Biden administration" that led to the United States' inability to make the necessary decisions to return to the nuclear deal.

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