Tehran, Iran
Oblique talks on relaunching the Iranian nuclear deal between Tehran and Washington, negotiated through the European Union, concluded Monday in the Austrian capital with a final draft agreement on the table.
Iran showed that relative progress had been made on the remaining issues in the talks circular that began on Thursday after a five-month hiatus, but said talks would continue.
A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official, quoted through the official IRNA news firm on Monday, said the Iranian negotiating team headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani had informed the other parties of their positions on the new draft text proposed by the EU. .
He said EU foreign policy leader Josep Borrell had laid out concepts about the remaining issues in the new text and that Iran had conveyed its “initial reaction and reservations. “
The comments came after the EU said on Monday it had submitted a “final” text to save the 2015 nuclear deal after four days of intense talks in Vienna between the parties to the deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). ).
“What can be negotiated has been negotiated, and is now in a final text. However, each and every technical failure and each and every paragraph is a political resolution that you want to do with capital letters,” Borrell wrote in Twitter.
He was quick to raise that if those are “positive,” then the parties can close the deal.
Earlier, an unnamed EU official reportedly said there would be no further adjustments to the text presented through Borrell and said he expects a final appeal from the parties in “a few weeks”.
Iran’s unnamed Foreign Ministry official said the EU text needed a “complete overhaul,” a sign that Kani and his team will talk about it with senior government officials in Tehran in the coming days before making a final decision.
In a tweet on Monday, Seyed Mohammad Marandi, one of the iranian negotiating team’s top advisers, said “the ball is in America’s court,” while confirming that the concepts proposed through the EU for the most important issues were discussed during this circular. of talks
“Iran will continue its constructive engagement through reading today’s amended proposals. The role of the coordinator is crucial, but it is up to the parties to come up with a final long-term text,” he said, adding that the Biden administration’s pursuit of Trump’s legacy “requires a very conscientiously adapted text. “
“Any agreement will have to be based on a forged foundation, backed up through unambiguous language and ensure unhindered implementation,” he wrote.
Russia’s permanent representative to Vienna-based foreign organizations, Mikhail Ulyanov, also took to Twitter to announce that the EU coordinator had circulated the final text of the draft on the recovery of the nuclear deal.
“Participants in the #ViennaTalks will have to know if the assignment is right for them. In case there are no objections, the nuclear deal will be reinstated,” he said.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and Borrell had a phone call after negotiators returned to their respective capitals on Monday, discussing the latest developments in the talks.
A representative of Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Amir-Abdollahian reaffirmed Iran’s “determination and seriousness” to reach a deal and said Iranian negotiators had put forward “constructive ideas” to triumph over the remaining turmoil in restoring the nuclear deal.
The head of European diplomacy, for his part, said he will continue his efforts to “bring in combination the issues of view” to achieve a “good result” for all parties.
Kani and his team returned to Vienna on Thursday, saying hours later that “it is up to those who broke the deal and failed to get out (on their own) from the legacy of being worried,” referring to the Biden administration.
The latest of the talks in Vienna came amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States following President Joe Biden’s visit to West Asia, where he signed two resolutions highly critical of Iran.