Iran walks back all concessions it made in previous negotiations on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal but insists on pocketing compromises from other governments while issuing fresh demands, a senior U.S. official says.
Iran’s aggressive stance at the talks this week in Vienna with world powers, coupled with a “provocative” acceleration of its nuclear program, raised questions about whether the nuclear agreementEuropean partners at the talks and representatives from Russia and China were “quite taken aback” with Iran’s negotiating position, which seemed to reject the results of six rounds of talks earlier this year, the official said.
Iranian chief negotiator Ali Bagheri said on Friday that his government’s proposals remain on the table and that Tehran was waiting for “documented and logical” responses, according to Iran’s Mehr News Agency. The senior State Department official declined to say at what point the White House would conclude that the talks were pointless and that the nuclear deal was effectively dead.
“The fact that we’re sitting in Vienna doesn’t mean that we can’t take steps to make clear to Iran that there’s a price to pay if it continues to stonewall. So even as we speak today, it’s not as if Iran is moving and we are sitting back and waiting,” the official said. Representatives from Iran and the European Union attend a meeting of the joint commission on negotiations aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 3, 2021.But in 2018, President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal, reimposed sanctions and introduced new economic penalties on Iran as part of a “maximum pressure” campaign. Iran has responded by flouting the restrictions on its uranium enrichment and other nuclear activities, while limiting access to U.
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