Foreign media “Decision not to demand the dismantlement of the Revolutionary Guard’s terrorist organization”… Negotiation Progress Assessment
EU “Reasonable level of Iran’s response to arbitration proposal… Most parties accepted”
It is reported that the West and Iran have narrowed some of the positions of the Iranian nuclear agreement (JCPOA) restoration talks.
The European Union (EU), which has been mediating negotiations, evaluated Iran’s opinion on the recently proposed ‘final arbitration plan’ as reasonable and acceptable to most Western countries.
Archyde.com reported on the 23rd (local time) that Iran has withdrawn some of the key demands it has made in the nuclear deal.
A U.S. official, who requested anonymity, claimed that Iran had made concessions by the United States, but that in fact Iran had withdrawn some of its core demands.
“We have finally made a critical, irreversible decision, and we have moved on to revisiting an agreement on terms acceptable to President Joe Biden,” the official said.
“If we get closer today, it’s because Iran has moved,” he added.
The official said Iran had significantly softened demands to reverse the US decision to designate the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
Earlier, CNN reported on the 19th, citing a high-ranking US official, that “in response to the EU’s final arbitration proposal, Iran did not demand that the Revolutionary Guard be removed from the list of terrorist organizations.”
However, Iran’s official position on the waiver of conditions related to the Revolutionary Guards has not yet been released.
However, shortly following the report was released, Mohammad Marandi, an adviser to the Iranian nuclear negotiation team, tweeted, “The issue of the IRGC’s exclusion from the FTO was not a prerequisite or a core requirement of the nuclear negotiation.
But if the US has to say these things to sell an agreement, it’s their business.”
Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Khanani told reporters at a press conference on the 22nd that he did not believe unfounded and unofficial reports.
Meanwhile, Rousseff Borrell, EU high-level foreign affairs and security policy representative, said in an interview with Spanish state TV on the 23rd that Iran’s recent position was acceptable to most Western countries. .
High Representative Borrell said, “Most of the parties to the nuclear agreement agree (on the mediation proposal), but we have not yet received a response from the United States.”
Earlier, High Representative Borrell mentioned that Iran’s opinion on the EU’s arbitration proposal was reasonable.
Even if the problem with the Revolutionary Guard Corps, which was evaluated as the most sensitive issue, has been resolved, there are still obstacles to a resolution.
Iran is demanding that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stop its investigation into the discovery of uranium traces in undeclared areas within the country, but the United States is unacceptable.
He also demanded a guarantee that no future U.S. president would break the Iran nuclear deal, but the U.S. said the guarantee was impossible.
US State Department spokeswoman Ned Price told reporters on the 22nd that “there are still some issues that need to be resolved until a settlement is reached.”
The Iran nuclear deal is an agreement signed with Iran in 2015 by the United States, France, Britain, Russia, China, and Germany.
The goal is to lift economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for a halt to Iran’s nuclear weapons development efforts.
However, former US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the 2018 nuclear deal and restored sanctions once morest Iran.
Iran has responded by limiting IAEA inspections and increasing uranium enrichment levels.
After the Joe Biden administration took office, which wants to restore the nuclear deal, Iran and other parties began negotiations in April last year.
/yunhap news
