European partners are pressing Iran to agree to a relaunch of the 2015 nuclear deal after a months-long deadlock in negotiations, arguing that “the best possible deal” is on the table.
“Now is the time for a decision if we want to save the Iran Nuclear Agreement,” the European Union’s foreign policy chief, who presided over lengthy talks in Vienna, wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
Josep Borrell has said that he has written an opinion article for the Financial Times, published this Tuesday, in which he defends that “it is concluded that the space for significant additional commitments has been exhausted” and that he has put on the table a text that addresses in detail the necessary steps to restore the nuclear deal.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said that return to full compliance with the agreement “is still possiblebut that, for that, a positive response from Iran is necessary as soon as possible”.
The statements show growing concern that time is running out to save the dealin part due to the approaching mid-term elections in the United States.
Iran and six world powers — the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China — signed the nuclear deal in 2015, agreeing to Tehran drastically limiting its uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting economic sanctions.
In 2018, then-US President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from the agreement, and since then, Iran has violated the agreement and its Values of enriched uranium.
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The talks in Vienna on the reactivation of the agreement and the return of the US, after the political turning point with the election of Joe Biden, are for from april.
If the deal is rejected, we risk a dangerous nuclear crisis, facing the prospect of further isolation for Iran and its people,” Borrell wrote. “It is our joint responsibility to complete the agreement.”
Source: Observadora
