ISTANBUL
The only way back to the 2015 nuclear deal is for Iran to give up on unacceptable new demands, the U. S. State Department said. USA
“We have long described those requests as superfluous. They have no position in Vienna. They have no position in discussions related to an imaginable return to compliance with the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or 2015 agreement),” spokesman Ned Price said. at a press conference. Monday.
“If Iran needs those sanctions lifted, it will have to replace its underlying conduct; it will have to replace the harmful activities that led to those sanctions in the first place,” he added.
Iran has submitted its reaction to the European Union’s draft aimed at saving the deal, which the bloc is considering lately.
Oblique talks between Iran and the US, mediated by the EU, concluded in the Austrian capital earlier this month with a final draft agreement on the table.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said the United States had “verbally accepted” two of its demands, but the third, which is similar to safeguards.
Asked about the US reaction to the EU’s final text, Price said: “We will provide our perspectives on the proposed text through the High Representative with him. We will do it in private. “
The nuclear deal signed in 2015 through Iran, the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the EU, however, Washington, under the direction of former President Donald Trump, withdrew from the agreement in 2018.
Tehran pledged to restrict its nuclear activity for civilian purposes and, in return, world powers agreed to withdraw their economic sanctions against Iran.
But the U. S. withdrawal from the landmark deal and the reimposition of sanctions led Iran to avoid complying with the nuclear deal.