DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said Tuesday it has submitted a “written response” to what has been described as a definitive roadmap to repair its deteriorating nuclear deal with world powers.
Iran’s state news firm IRNA gave no main points on the content of its response, but warned that Tehran would still not settle for the European Union’s proposal, despite warnings that there would be no further negotiations.
“The differences relate to 3 issues, on which the U. S. The U. S. has expressed its verbal flexibility in two cases, but this should be included in the text,” the IRNA report said. “The third challenge is similar to ensuring the continuation of (the agreement), which rests on the realism of the United States. “
Tehran, under the hardline leadership of President Ebrahim Raisi, has sought to blame Washington for delaying a deal. Monday would have been the deadline for Iran’s response.
Nabila Massrali, a spokeswoman for EU foreign affairs and security policy, told The Associated Press that the EU won Iran’s reaction on Monday night.
“We are reading it and consulting with other JCPOA participants and with the United States on the way forward,” he said, an acronym for the nuclear deal’s official call, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
The EU has been the intermediary in the proximity talks, with Iran refusing to negotiate with the United States since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the deal in 2018.
From Washington, State Department spokesman Ned Price said the U. S. The US percentage of its own reaction to the EU.
“However, we agree with the basic point (of the EU), which is that what can be negotiated can simply be negotiated,” Price said.
He added that Iran had made “unacceptable demands” that went beyond the text of the 2015 nuclear deal, in which Iran drastically restricted its uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
“If Iran needs those sanctions lifted, it will have to replace its underlying conduct,” Price said. “They will have to replace the harmful activities that led to those sanctions in the first place. “
According to the most recent public count, Iran has a stockpile of about 3,800 kilograms (8,370 pounds) of enriched uranium. Under the deal, Tehran could enrich uranium to a purity of 3. 67%, while maintaining a uranium stockpile of 300 kilograms (660 pounds). reserve under constant surveillance through surveillance cameras and foreign inspectors.
Iran is now enriching uranium to 60% purity, a point it has never reached before and which is at a technical step of 90%. Nonproliferation experts warn that Iran now has enough uranium enriched to 60 percent as fuel for at least one nuclear bomb. Meanwhile, surveillance cameras were turned off and other photographs were seized through Iran.
However, Iran would still want to devise a bomb-and-drop formula for this, likely a multi-month task. Tehran insists its program is peaceful, the West and the International Atomic Energy Agency claim Iran had an organized military nuclear program until 2003.
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