Discussions in the Austrian capital on resuming the 2015 Iran nuclear deal were postponed in the Austrian capital on Friday.
The seventh round of talks, which began on December 9, has made little substantive progress. Speaking in Washington, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said frankly: Negotiations are not going so well that the US does not yet see a way back to nuclear negotiations.
Representatives of Tehran’s leadership have called for changes to the agreement outlined in the last six rounds of negotiations, which have all but stalled talks, while Western powers have warned that time is running out given Iran’s fast-paced nuclear programme.
“We don’t have months, we only have weeks to reach an agreement,” he said. Said Enrique Moura, the EU’s chief negotiator, who is also coordinating the negotiations. However, he hoped that discussions would continue this year. Some officials stated on December 27 in this regard.
The current separation was initiated by Iran, while Western negotiating delegations were to remain in Vienna until Tuesday. Mora and other officials also reported that Iranian demands were included in the current text as a basis for negotiation, but that three European powers were less optimistic.
“There has been some technical progress in the last 24 hours, but that won’t bring us back to the state of negotiations until June.” – French, British and German negotiating delegations referred to as E3s. In their ad, they described the break as annoying.
In addition to the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China, the United States is indirectly involved in reconciliation. Former US President Donald Trump in 2018 unilaterally withdrew his country from the agreement, and reimposed sanctions on Iran. After that, Tehran gradually got rid of its contractual obligations. Iran continues to view the lifting of these sanctions as a condition for further negotiations.
