In April in Vienna, discussions designed to bring Iran and the United States into the agreement were adjourned to June, after the victory in the Iranian presidential election of the ultra-conservative Ebrahim Raisf.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
After turning the hot and cold, Iran agrees to return to the negotiating table. The discussions organized in the Austrian capital Vienna to revive the 2015 Agreement on the Iranian Nuclear Program will resume on November 29, announced, Wednesday, November 3, the chief negotiator of Tehran on the nuclear, Ali Bagheri Kani, and the Union European.
Tehran said last month, after a meeting between Ali Bagheri Kani and the European Coordinator of Discussions, Enrique Mora, that the talks with the global powers stakeholders of the agreement would resume by The end of November.
started in April in Vienna, where was signed the Common Global Action Plan (PAGC, or JCPOA in English), discussions to bring Iran and the United States in the agreement were adjourned to June , after the victory at the Iranian presidential election of the UltraConservant Ebrahim Raisssi.
The EU has indicated that the meeting would be presided over by Enrique Mora. Will take part of the representatives of China, Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Iran, has it stated in a statement.
The United States “greeted” the announcement of the resumption of negotiations and confirmed that they would participate with their emissaries for Iran, Rob Malley. “We believe that it is possible to quickly reach an agreement and to implement it as soon as possible,” to save the 2015 Agreement supposed to prevent Tehran from accessing the atomic bomb, said the spokesman of the department. State Ned Price in front of the press.
He assured that only “a relatively limited number of questions” were still “outstanding”, when these indirect negotiations with Iran were suspended in June. “We think that if the Iranians are serious, we can do that fast enough,” he added, while warning that the “shooting window” was not going to “stay open indefinitely”.
Persistence of voltages
The United States unilaterally left the agreement in 2018, under the chairmanship of Donald Trump, which considered him insufficient and restored all the sanctions against Iran whose lifting was provided for in the text. In return, Tehran has gradually freed the restrictions imposed on its nuclear program.
The tensions remain vivid: the guards of the Iranian Revolution announced, Wednesday, last week fail, a attempt at the American navy to seize in the Oman Sea of a tanker carrying from the Iran’s oil.
The Pentagon has described this version of the events of “inaccurate and false”. An author of the US Department of Defense who required anonymity stated that the US Navy did not attempt to seize the tanker.