Tehran’s chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani announced after meeting with European Negotiation Coordinator Enrique Mora in Brussels that Iran agreed on Wednesday to resume negotiations on its nuclear program in November.
There may be a chance to save the Vienna agreement on Iran’s nuclear power reached in 2015. Iran is preparing to resume negotiations on its nuclear program in November. Iran’s deputy minister in charge of the document, Ali Bagheri, announced after a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday that it will meet with European negotiator Enrique Mora on October 27. .
“I had a serious and constructive dialogue with Enrique Mora on the elements of successful negotiations. We have agreed to start negotiations before the end of November. The exact date will be announced next week,” he said on his Twitter account. Said in a message on.
A European source said after the meeting that Brussels “has nothing to announce at this time.”
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“After evaluating the meeting between Ali Bagli and Enrique Mora, we will decide the date for the meeting with the 4+1 Group (five signatories), but it will not be too late.” The head of Iran’s foreign affairs, Hussein Amir Abdullahian, announced in Tehran.
The European Union urges Iranians to resume negotiations initiated in Vienna to save the 2015 agreement to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. They have been suspended since the election of the new Iranian president in June.
“The talks must be held in Vienna,” insisted in Brussels. After meeting with European negotiators in Tehran on October 14th, the Iranians requested a meeting with Enrique Mora to “discuss questions that have not yet been answered.”
“They want to clarify the text discussed (in Vienna) and bilateral contacts with some signatories,” a European official revealed last week. However, Europeans can undoubtedly engage in bilateral negotiations with representatives of the Iranian regime.
International pressure
The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, was the coordinator of negotiations with the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA) in 2015. He must negotiate with other signatories and the United States to prepare to return in the agreement condemned in 2018. Donald Trump-before setting a date for the resumption of the Vienna negotiations.
Therefore, Europeans believe that Iran’s statement is “premature”.
On the one hand, Iran has reached an agreement with the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, France, and Germany, requiring Tehran to lift international sanctions that have partially stifled its economy in exchange for a significant reduction in its nuclear program, which is strictly controlled by the United Nations.
The Americans became increasingly impatient and warned again on Monday that they were prepared to take “other measures” if the negotiations to save the Iranian nuclear agreement failed.
The US special envoy to Iran, Rob Marley, warned that diplomatic “doors” “will not remain open forever.” He warned: “At some point, the meaning of JCPOA will be too empty, because Iran will make irreversible progress on the nuclear issue.”
Agence France-Presse