VIENNA, Mar 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) – Political decisions need to be made, to end the Vienna talks, on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, said Enrique Mora, deputy secretary-general of the European External Action Service, yesterday.
“It is time, in the next few days, for political decisions to end the Vienna talks. The rest is noise,” Mora said on Twitter.
Mora is acting as the European Union’s coordinator in the negotiations in Vienna. His comments came, as Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh said in Tehran yesterday that, a few differences remain between Iran and the West.
“If the U.S. approach is reasonable, quick agreement is available,” Khatibzadeh said. However, he emphasised that, Iran will never accept or adhere to a deadline for negotiations.
“There are no longer ‘expert level talks.’ Nor ‘formal meetings,'” Mora said, refuting reports of further such meetings.
In 2015, Iran signed the landmark nuclear accord, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: China, France, Russia, Britain and the United States, plus Germany) and the EU.
However, former U.S. President, Donald Trump, unilaterally pulled Washington out of the pact in May, 2018, and re-imposed sanctions on Iran. This prompted Iran to drop some of its nuclear commitments and advance its previously halted nuclear programmes.
Since Apr, 2021, Iran and the remaining JCPOA parties have held eight rounds of marathon talks in Vienna, to revive the deal.– NNN-AGENCIES
