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Parisa Hafezi and Arshad Mohammed
DUBAI/WASHINGTON — On Monday, the European Union submitted a 'final' document reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as a four-day conference. said he did. Indirect talks between US and Iranian officials ended in Vienna.
"What can be negotiated has been negotiated and is now in the final document. But behind every technical issue and every paragraph is a political decision that needs to be made in the capital. ', tweeted Josep Borrell, the EU's head of foreign policy.
"If these responses are positive, we can sign this agreement," he added, as the EU, Iran and the US prepared to leave Vienna.
Earlier, a senior EU official told reporters that no further changes could be made to the text, which had been in negotiations for 15 months, and that a final decision by the parties was pending. said he expects Within "a very, very few weeks."
"This is a package proposal...you can't say yes to page 20 and he disagrees to page 50. You have to say yes or no," he said.
Washington said it was ready to reach an agreement soon to revive the deal based on the EU's proposal, but Iranian officials said their "additional views and considerations matter” to the European Union. Meeting after talks in Tehran.
Iran's Nournews website, which has partnered with the country's Supreme National Security Council to make decisions on nuclear negotiations, has told the EU, which is coordinating the talks, to "present its proposal as a final document." ' said he had no authority.
"The aim is to compel Iran to accept the document...under pressure...with Iran, as one of the negotiating If you don't accept it as a document, other authorities can't accept it and talk about the completion of the text."
Iran has called on the United States and other Western powers to consider it outside the scope of the revival of the deal, including calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to drop its claims. Undeclared site.
Both sides tried to hold the other to account for the compromise.
“They (Iranians) repeatedly say they are ready to return to mutual implementation of the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). See if their actions match their words. Let's see," said a U.S. State Department spokeswoman.
Under the 2015 agreement, Iran suppressed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from US, EU and UN sanctions.
However, former US President Donald Trump scrapped the nuclear deal in 2018 and reinstated tough US sanctions, and about a year later Tehran began violating the deal's nuclear restrictions.
While the deal appeared to have been largely reinstated in his March, his 11-month long indirect negotiations between Tehran and the US administration of Joe Biden were thrown into disarray. The main reason is Iran's insistence that Washington remove the elite Revolutionary Guard from the US Foreign Office. List of terrorist organizations.
Reuters, citing one Iranian and one European, reported in June that Tehran had dropped its demands.
A senior Iranian official told Reuters on Monday that "aside from Tehran's request for an end to the IAEA investigation, there remain several issues that have yet to be discussed." Told.
Iran is also seeking assurances that future US presidents will not scrap the deal if it is restored, as Trump has done. But Biden said the deal is a political one, not a legally binding treaty, so he cannot offer such ironclad guarantees. The media alluded to the issue.
"The final agreement must safeguard the rights and interests of the Iranian people and ensure an effective and stable lifting of sanctions," said Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amiravdrahian. told Borrell by phone, state media reported. (Reported by Parisa Hafeji, Dubai; Reported by Arshad Mohammed, Washington; Written by Arshad Mohammed and Parisa Hafeji, Edited by Alistair Bell)