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Nuclear: Iranian delegation and European coordinator expected in Vienna to resume discussions

2022-08-03T13:00:04.142Z


An Iranian delegation will leave for Vienna to continue talks aimed at reviving the nuclear agreement, more than four months later...


An Iranian delegation will leave for Vienna to continue talks aimed at reviving the nuclear agreement, more than four months after their suspension, the Foreign Ministry said.

"

As part of the policy of lifting the cruel sanctions against our country, the team led by Ali Bagheri, the Islamic Republic's chief negotiator, will leave for Vienna in a few hours

," the ministry spokesman said. Nasser Kanani, in a press release.

The negotiator of the European Union responsible for coordinating the talks, Enrique Mora, is also expected on site for yet another attempt to save a moribund agreement.

"

On the way to Vienna to discuss the return to the full application of the JCPOA

", he tweeted, in reference to the English acronym designating the 2015 agreement supposed to prevent Tehran from acquiring the atomic bomb.

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Negotiations between Iran and the great powers, which had started at the end of November 2021 to reintegrate the United States of Joe Biden, have been at a standstill since March.

At the end of June, Qatar organized indirect talks between Tehran and Washington in the hope of putting the process back on track, but these discussions had not led to any progress.

In a final attempt, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, submitted a draft compromise last Tuesday and called on the parties to accept it to avoid a "

dangerous crisis

".

Iran was in the process shown "

optimistic

" and announced Wednesday the dispatch of a delegation to the Austrian capital.

According to Josep Borrell, the proposed text "

addresses all the essentials and includes hard-won compromises by all parties

”.

It mentions "

in detail

" the lifting of the sanctions imposed on Iran and the nuclear measures necessary to restore the pact.

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Concluded by Iran and six powers (Russia, United States, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany), the JCPOA aims to guarantee the civilian character of Iran's nuclear program, accused of seeking to acquire the atomic weapon despite its denials, in exchange for a gradual lifting of international sanctions affecting the Iranian economy.

But following the unilateral withdrawal of the United States in 2018 at the instigation of Donald Trump and the reinstatement of American sanctions, Tehran has gradually freed itself from its obligations.

Iran thus exceeded the uranium enrichment rate of 3.67% set by the JCPOA, rising to 20% at the start of 2021. Then it crossed the unprecedented threshold of 60%, approaching the 90% necessary for the making a bomb.

Source: lefigaro

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