European powers involved in the Vienna negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal warned Friday as the talks were put on pause that while “some technical progress” had been made, they were “rapidly reaching the end of the road.”
“There has been some technical progress in the last 24 hours, but this only takes us back nearer to where the talks stood in June,” the UK, France, and Germany said in a joint statement.
The US and its European partners want Iran to sign off on a draft agreement that was negotiated with the previous Iranian government. But Tehran has put new draft proposals forward as the Iranians seek more sanctions relief than Washington is willing to give.
Iran’s leading negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, had positive things to say about this week’s negotiations. “We have made good progress this week. We will convene a joint commission today and will continue talks after a break of a few days,” he said.
Bagheri Kani will now go back to Tehran for consultations, and the Europeans said they were “disappointed” by the pause. A date to resume the talks is not yet set, but an unnamed diplomat told Reuters they could reconvene on December 27th.
Amid negotiations, the US has ramped up the pressure on Iran by imposing new sanctions, coordinating closely with Israel, and making vague statements that could be taken as military threats. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US was working with allies on “alternatives” in case the negotiations fail.
“Oh no, the Germans are mad, oh not the Germans ….”
Satrap opinion is immaterial … There are four parties at the table: the US, Iran, Russia, and China.
There is a reason for the honorable mention of Germany. With Greens in charge of foreign policy, Washington got German version of neocon-neolib Frankenstein to use as a bludgeon. Europe is now — with few wxceptiins — under this new version of American axis.
Russia is moving to confront that — better sooner than later. Iran is actually protected by both Russia and China. Their negotiations are symbolic of the entire east-west divide.
This is why Iran iinsists on normalization — remival of sanctions. And US adding some more.
It is not true that Iran lacks medicine or anything else. Non-Western countries produce all that Iran needs. Iran’s markets are being squeezed by US -/ but there are plenty of countries that do not comply and are using alternative miney transfer systems.
The point of remiving sanctions IS the point. It is to establish that US has violated UN Resolution by dropping out of the agreement, as the Agreement at the time of passage was voted on in UNSC to unsure its international validity.
US and Europe — now bolstered by US favored governments in Italy, France, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Dennark, Poland and dependencies in Baltic region — have nobdissenting voices excelt Hungary and Turkey in NATO. They have been.bypassed.
It is crunch time. Some here want war. It is the health of the state.
… and, prima inter pares, Tel Aviv.
Iran really has to insist Israel be sanctioned for past crimes and as prophylactic against potential future aggression. Otherwise it leaves large latitude for Imperial proxy aggression.
The “past crimes” are illusory.Let us look at Iran’s past and present crimes,terrorism,torture,assasination, and repression.
Yes, let’s look anywhere else but Israel.
Daily crimes against humanity, occupattion without holding occupier to the account, rouge violence against neighbors far and wide. Iran is not US ally, and may never be a triend. But Israel is our ally and we are forced to justify their crimes. We pay for their arrogance. We are the ones that should be shocked and embarrased
But we are not. People without shame and conscience are dangerouss. Wish we could keep better company, or at least discipline the delinquent, If we cannot somebody else will. Let us just not hear the cries of
woes.
The Mideast is a rough neighborhood.Your idea of “discipline” is quite ludicrous in the real world.
Let’s look into our own crimes; torture, extrajudicial assassinations, coups, providing money and weapons to murderers. Like, look who is calling the kettle black.
Neither you nor I have any input into what our government does.
Let “us” look? jake you can’t see past the red, white, & blue blindfold over your face.
sounds like summer ices
Only the blue and white flag for him.
Terrorism, as in sabotaging Iran’s nuclear facilities? Assassinations? Seriously, you have the balls to bring up assassinations? Torture and repression? You mean like the outdoor prison known as the Gaza strip or the apartheid practiced in Israel proper? How about the occupied territories? Any repression there?
How about our own Guantanamo, or the secret depots around the world where torture is the name of the game?
Youhate and rave about Israel, and whitewash Iran.
Israel ? , don`t you mean Palestine which belongs to the Palestinian People , the Zionist only arrived in 1947/8 and are nothing but invaders and occupiers.
1.There were Jews living in Palestine since 2500 BC;the Arabs arrived apx 700 AD. This is not to say that Arab inhabitants are any more or less entitled to live there.
2.There have been Jews living through out the Mid east since Roman times-they were very often expelled in recent times by the Islamic world, or otherwise ill treated.3,The Palestinian peoples are comprised of Muslim, Christians,Jews,Druze,Circassians, and others. European Jews came as part of the Zionist movement often in the 1880’s.
4Those Jews who came in 1947 were refugees expelled from the Christian and Islamic world.
There were Palestinians living in Israel since 2500 too. The Israeli people are composed of Americans, Russians, Africans, etc. In fact the current non-Jewish inhabitants of what we now call Israel, are derived from the early Israelites who committed that genocide against the Canaanites according to your religious history. All the johnny-come-latelies called “settlers” can’t trace their lineage back to ancient Israel either, any more than Roman Catholics can trace their lineage back to Rome/Vatican. They are just looking to confiscate more land.
You’re off by about half a century. By 1897, the Jewish Colonisation Association was negotiating the purchase of land in the Jezreel Valley from the Sursock family, and by 1901 had bought about 7,800 acres near Tiberias. That’s organized Zionist arrival. Probably some individual/family arrival before that.
If the roles were reversed, I’d be bitching about Iran.
because the apartheid regime claims they are a “western style” democracy, which is pure bs.
I think you are talking about America
And Israel.
The EU stooges are not worth talking to. They could not even implement Intex to save their behind after US pulled out. EU is the most useless entity created.
Note the coordination with Israel and the astoninshment that Iran should harden its stance when it has elected a new government.
Remember the trump changes??? USA kept them and now wants to force the situation and blame Iran, STILL under draconian cruel restrictions without medications kept out by US decisions.See Grayzone interview- Aaron Maté with Mohammed Marandi.
So, what happens if a “new” JCPOA is established and someone (if not him) like Trump wins in 2024? Do we go back to another “nullification” of this treaty? Let’s face it- Iran is just a can being kicked down the road by the REAL warmongers! The problem with this world is that there is a level of justice that apparently cannot be reached when it comes to the powers-that-be!
I do agree and it compels me to question what kind of validity these possible deals are capable of.
You are right. The whole sanctions (“legal” in the rules-based international order concocted by the USA) collective punishment of Iran for existing when Israel wants it to be destroyed is cruel and unjustified. The USA pretending to care for democracy and human rights and lecturing to others is a sham.
“and the Europeans said they were “disappointed” by the pause.”___ Stay Disappointed…!
It is hard to negotiate when one side refuses to guarantee they will abide by the agreement.
A three legged dog, lost in the fog…!!!
If the Euros were actaully independent nations, they would in the event of failure of the negotiations simply restore the existing JCPOA and drop all sanctions. However, because ghey are in fact willingly bullied US vassals, they will be complicit in the coming Israeli/US war on Iran.
Again quoting Percival Rose: “That ain’t gonna happen.”
There will be no deal. The JCPOA is dead as a door nail and always was five minutes after Trump was elected and Obama knew that when he negotiated it.
US is frustrated because they cannot meet Iranians face to face to bully them in the talks…! The E3 is frustrated because they have to carry messages back and forth between US & Iran…!