The eighth round of reinvigorating economic negotiations Iran Nuclear Agreement Having started in Vienna, Iran stated that the participants are mainly working on an acceptable common draft text and that its team is willing to stay to reach an agreement.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdullahian said that he hopes that the focus of the next round of talks will be how Tehran can verify whether the sanctions imposed by the United States are actually lifted. The landmark 2015 deal of Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the United States lifted sanctions on the United States. Iran In exchange for control of its civilian nuclear program.
Amir-Abdollahian said: “We must reach the point where Iranian oil can be easily sold without any restrictions, so that the oil money can be transferred to Iranian bank accounts in foreign currency.”
He said that negotiators are studying two draft joint texts. The first broadly covers the nature of all sanctions related to the nuclear agreement that the United States must lift. The second is about the phases and details of the steps that Iran must reverse to re-comply with the agreement, such as reducing its nuclear inventory and stopping the use of advanced Centrifuge.
Regarding the third document on sanctions lifting verification, Iran stated that it must complete a fixed amount of oil and industrial exports before it can take reciprocal action and fully resume compliance with its one-party transactions.
Iran is worried that Western companies are reluctant to invest in Iran because they fear that the future Republican president of the United States may re-impose sanctions in 2025, putting their investments at risk, just like what happened when Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech in February that sanctions must be lifted in practice, not just on paper.A study by the Iranian Parliament lists the number of oil barrels to be exported per day and the value required for transactions conducted in Iranian-controlled banks Europe.
Although the talks will be difficult, Iran seems to intend to inject some optimism into the process that began in April.
In an important statement the day before the eighth round of negotiations, the Iranian Atomic Energy Authority publicly promised not to seek to enrich uranium to more than 60%. This promise relieved the Russian negotiators who were worried that if Tehran promoted nuclear weapons-90% Enriched, the European and American delegations will abandon the talks.
Western diplomats said that they will not delay negotiations for too long, and may set the deadline in early February. They pointed out that the negotiations first started and then suspended for three months when the new Iranian government reviewed its negotiating position. At the same time, Israel claimed that Iran was delaying and its scientists secretly brought Iran closer to the nuclear bomb. Western diplomats admit that Iran is closer to the breakthrough time than ever before, but this is not the same as being close to possessing nuclear weapons.
Iran, China, Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the European Union participated in the talks, and an American delegation indirectly participated in the talks-a cumbersome procedure, and although Tehran delayed progress, it still insisted on doing so. Iran has complained in recent weeks that European countries, especially France, have taken a stand that is indistinguishable from that of the United States.
The extent to which Iran needs to lift Western sanctions to generate a viable budget is disputed domestically. The leadership team around the new president, Ebrahim Raisi, claimed that it could avoid eliminating expensive gasoline subsidies and still generate a viable budget, but many Iranian economists rejected this claim.
