The European Union’s top diplomat on Monday said that the prospects of reviving the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA, are “in danger” after Washington’s negative reaction to Tehran’s latest response in the ongoing negotiations.
“The positions are not closer … If the process does not converge, then the whole process is in danger,” said Josep Borrel, the EU’s foreign policy chief.
Borrel has been brokering the negotiations between the US and Iran, and the EU recently put forward a “final” proposal to revive the JCPOA. Monday’s comments mark Borrel’s most negative comments since the EU made its proposal.
When the US received Iran’s latest response in the negotiations last Thursday night, an anonymous US official criticized the response as “not encouraging” and “moving backwards.”
Details of Iran’s response aren’t clear, but the two sides appear to be at odds over guarantees Iran seeks if the US withdraws from the deal again and over the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) inquiry into uranium traces at undeclared Iranian nuclear sites.
US officials said they conveyed to Iran not to link the IAEA investigation with a deal to revive the JCPOA. Iran reiterated its call for the IAEA to close the inquiry on Monday, but it’s still not clear if that is a condition for Iran to sign an agreement with the US.
Also on Monday, Iran rejected the US characterization of its latest response in the negotiations as being negative. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani described the Iranian response as “constructive, transparent and legal” and said it “can create the grounds for a conclusion of the talks.”
One factor that could have impacted the US’s criticism of Iran’s response is pressure from Israel, which is strongly opposed to reviving the JCPOA. As a deal between the US and Iran seemed possible, Israel has stepped up its efforts to influence the Biden administration, and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Sunday that the pressure was “working.”
America and its MASTER,(Israel) had NO intention of ever making a deal
That is the ONLY REASON that there is no deal.
Strange how when one side asks the other to promise to honor the agreement it is seen as a provocation .
Iran will join Eurasia and with the current defense agreements they have they will be a very hard target for Israel and the Washington Lobby..
That ship already sailed. Twenty fuve year deal singed between China and Iran, and twenty year deal with Russia — all within last 10 months are rather conclusive. Iran has been accepted into decision making body of SCO, and has negotiated various chapters within the organization. Will be soon formally inaugurated. In its new role it will have a say in the accession
of three new SCO partner level members — Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar,
Iran would welcome JCPOA as a means of normalizing relatiins, and removing tensions. But will not accept something that will keep same limitations in trade with Europe PLUS keeping that phoney IAEA issue open!
Since US cannot get any concessiins from Iran what will be the reason for US to siign? And since Iran does not need Eurooean or US market any more — why would it sign?
The only remaining issue is oil and gas. Europe wants it. Will US magnanimously accept JCPOE under sime energy deal fir Europe? Privided that Europe subsidizes Ukrainian budget? Or something along the lines?
The main uncertainty with the JCPOS is whether the US will stage an incident for massa Israel before the bombing starts. Massa Israel be good to Merica. Merica jus praise Jesus for massa Israel.
Now that tickled my funny bone!
Lawzy.
The headline is funny. When only one side was EVER in compliance, it’s hard to call the “Deal” a deal.
The leadership of the western so-called value democracies are intellectually and morally totally bankrupt. They believe that sanctions and wars will take care of everything according to their needs.
They have no rational moral leadership, only war criminals with Biden in the lead. They are losers and losers tend to get hysterical.
All for Lapid election win…!
“Josep Borrel, the EU’s foreign policy chief.”
We see how effective he in in the worsening relations between the EU and Russia from the start!
ENOUGH! Enough with the f**king footsy already. If Biden had any intention of passing the JCPOA he would and easily could have done it a f**king year ago. Right now, he’s just stalling bombing Iran until after 2024, and if the Republicans win, they’ll just bomb it twice. They’re just keeping Iran too busy to build a pact with China until Tehran is burning.
Holding onto the oil stock. And don’t expect Russia or China to try and stop the attack on Iran. They’ll be the winners.
Biden must be called out on his lies. He said he’d revive this Deal if elected, and he has instead done exactly what Trump was doing.
It won’t long before Europe recognizes how costly allegiance to Biden has been. When that happens, some may start thinking that they should do what is best for their own countries. Europe doesn’t need US permission to do business with Iran. The threat of secondary sanctions is a blade that cuts both ways, particularly if they ask the forbidden question: With friends like Biden, who needs enemies?
I suppose that’s ridiculous. And yet, the prospect of freezing in the dark can be a sobering experience.
Demonstrations in Europe against the Biden NATO policies are on the rise.
“in danger” DUH! Captain Obvious reporting again…
Iran may be more comfortable negotiating after the imminent global fiancial freeze.
Borrell and von der Leyen are narrowly focused with the European energy and financial crisis.
As with the US, they’re not agreement capable. What are they really expecting to happen other than drawing out the sanctions and facilitating a color revolution?