The only way to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is for Tehran to abandon its extraneous demands, the US State Department said, saying Washington believes everything that can be negotiated formerly has been.
State Department spokesperson Ned Price told a briefing on Monday that the United States would give its response to the European Union’s “final” textbook on reviving the deal in private but gave no timeline.
“The only way to achieve a collective return to compliance with the JCPOA is for Iran to drop farther inferior demands that go beyond the compass of the JCPOA. We’ve long called these demands extraneous,” Price said.
The EU asked for a response on Monday, diplomats said, and Iran has said it’ll misbehave.
US President Joe Biden’s administration has been trying to revitalize the 2015 agreement, named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action(JCPOA), which was abandoned by Biden’s precursor Donald Trump in 2018.
Under the deal, Tehran limited its nuclear program in exchange for relief from US, EU and UN warrants.
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‘Relative progress made’
The IAEA’s board of governors espoused a resolution in June, censuring Iran for failing to adequately explain the discovery of traces of fortified uranium at three preliminarily undeclared spots.
The Iranian foreign ministry functionary added on Monday that, during the addresses of the once many days,” we participated our positions with the other sides, and relative progress was made in some issues.”
He added that the negotiating platoon looks to “guarding the rights and interests of the Iranian nation” as well as “icing the benefits and guaranteeing the sustainable perpetration of the other party’s scores and precluding the reiteration of US illegal geste”.
The accommodations to revive the deal began in April 2021 before coming to a deadlock in March.
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