Iran’s leading nuclear negotiator said Sunday that Tehran has responded to a proposal from the EU aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.
“We shared our proposed ideas, both on substance & form, to pave the way for a swift conclusion of Vienna negotiations,” Ali Bagheri Kani wrote on Twitter. He added that Iran is “ready to conclude the negotiations in a short order, should the other side be ready to do the same.”
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, proposed a new draft text of the JCPOA last week, the details of which are not clear. Borrell said that he put forward the new text because he believes “space for additional significant compromises has been exhausted.”
“I have now put on the table a text that addresses, in precise detail, the sanctions lifting as well as the nuclear steps needed to restore the JCPOA,” Borrell said.
The State Department has said that the US is reviewing Borrell’s proposal and has yet to respond. In a sign that the US isn’t willing to revive the deal, the Biden administration is reportedly considering new sanctions targeting Iranian oil sales.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the administration is considering sanctioning a UAE-based businessman and network of companies suspected of helping export Iranian oil.
The Biden administration has maintained a hardline position on Iran, refusing to lift the sanctions Tehran requested to restore the JCPOA. Brett McGurk, President Biden’s top Middle East official on the National Security Council, said last week that it’s “highly unlikely” the JCPOA will be revived.
With or without a nuclear deal Iran has proven it can survive the sanctions…!
Time for the EU to cut the political cord connected to the U.S. Really…..
The U.S. is doing its best to crush Iranian / Venezuelan oil production then crying over high oil prices
These morons never give up. The EU is a joke organization going down the tubes rapidly. It probably won’t exist in a few more years. They’re acting outside the US wishes in a vain attempt to get Iranian oil, and then they expect the US to agree to rejoin the JCPOA. This is just risible. It’s another demonstration of how the entire West is being run by ignorant uneducated imbeciles, just as Martyanov constantly says.