Source: Russia Today
An Iranian diplomatic source participating in the Vienna negotiations revealed that 90% of all aspects of the upcoming agreement on the Iranian nuclear program are agreed upon.
Al-Jazeera quoted the source as saying: “We are talking mainly regarding oral agreements, which have not yet become a written document.”
Earlier, the official representative of the Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Saeed Khatibzadeh, announced the arrival of European envoy Enrique Mora, Deputy Head of the European Union’s Foreign Policy Service, to Tehran. He stated that the Spanish diplomat will meet with the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister and head of the Iranian delegation to the Vienna talks, Ali Bagheri Kani. Mora tweeted before traveling to Tehran that he “intends to continue working with the Iranian side to fill the remaining gaps.”
In turn, Khatibzadeh described his visit as a “step in the right direction.” He stressed that “contacts with the European Union coordinator will add the necessary minute details, given that Iran and the United States exchange messages through the European Union.”
Negotiations in Vienna between Iran’s delegations and the “five” international mediators (Russia, Britain, Germany, China and France) to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program were suspended on March 11. Tehran demanded that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps be excluded from the list of US sanctions and the list of foreign terrorist organizations.
On May 7, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, told the Financial Times that the option of removing the IRGC from the US sanctions list was being considered, but that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ special “Quds Force” would remain on the list of organizations. terrorist.
