starts this thursday Negotiations resumed in Vienna to reactivate the 2015 agreement. Iranian can develop atomic weapons in the short term, some contacts that have been paralyzed for five months in exchange for economic benefits.
Sources from the European Union confirmed to Efe that talks were restarted today, led by European Foreign Action Service political director Enrique Mora, who announced yesterday that he has returned to the Austrian capital, “to discuss the return of the JCPOA,” he said. – as the deal is known – to full implementation.
Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagherí Kaní and the US special envoy to Iran Robert Malley also announced that they would be in Vienna to maintain contacts.
Washington, who dynamited the deal when he became then-president in 2018 donald trump decided to leave and re-impose economic sanctions on Iran.It indirectly participates in the talks because of Iran’s refusal to sit at the same table.
Other signatories of the JCPOA, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and China, are participating in the negotiation.
This new attempt to revive the JCPOA comes after EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell announced that he has submitted a draft agreement to try to close the fifteen-month negotiations.
Borrell agreed “run out” of space to fulfill new commitments He said there was a risk of a “dangerous nuclear crisis” if an agreement was not reached.
According to Borrell, the deal will bring economic benefits to Iran through the lifting of sanctions and security on a regional and global scale.
After the US abandoned the deal and reimposed economic sanctionsIran began to violate the limits of the atomic program imposed by the JCPOA and accumulated nuclear fuel in quantity and purity. enough to be close enough to power a bomb.
Negotiations stalled last March when Iran brought its nuclear capability to a level that would prevent military uses, as it approached a deal that would balance a US withdrawal of sanctions and a return to the JCPOA.
While Iran and the United States have blamed each other for taking action to reach a compromise, all parties have shown their willingness to close a deal.