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European Union officials have confirmed that Iran nuclear talks have restarted in Vienna on Monday after a five-month hiatus . Earlier this month Tehran officials said they planned to rejoin talks for a restored Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal with the West, which includes indirect talks with the US via European mediators.
It’s the first time Iran has come to the table since recently elected Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi took power in August. But Reuters and others are noting that with Western powers “increasingly frustrated” it remains that “hopes of a breakthrough appear slim” . Via Reuters Already the Iranian side’s 40-strong delegation is being pressed by Western officials over whether they are stilling or serious – given talks haven’t been held since June, when the 6th round of talks wrapped up with little to no progress, resulting in widespread accusations Tehran is stalling in order to covertly build-up its nuclear and uranium enrichment capabilities.
US envoy for the negotiations Robert Malley highlighted in a weekend statement that the clock is ticking for the Islamic Republic to show that it’s serious: ” If Iran thinks it can use this time to build more leverage and then come back and say they want something better, it simply won’t work . We and our partners won’t go for it,” he said in a BBC interview.
Both sides currently see the other’s demands as “unreasonable” – meaning there’s sharp disagreement upon even re-entering dialogue. Iran’s unwavering position has been the immediate dropping of all Trump-era sanctions, given it was the US that unilaterally exited the 2015 JCPOA deal in the first place: “To ensure any forthcoming agreement is ironclad, the West needs to pay a price for having failed to uphold its part of the bargain . As in any business, a deal is a deal, and breaking it has consequences,” Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani said in defiant column in the Financial Times on Sunday. The Iranian economy and infrastructure has been reeling throughout the COVID pandemic, which critics say is largely the fault of the US-led sanctions regimen. […]
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