Iran nuclear talks in Vienna could resume in days
The EU's policy chief says Iran will receive significant economic and financial dividends from a nuclear deal.
A few days after EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell presented the United States and Iran with a new proposal to salvage the tattered 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran appears ready to talk.
“We shared our proposed ideas, both on substance & form, to pave the way for a swift conclusion of Vienna negotiations” tweeted Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani on Sunday, adding that this is aimed at “fixing the damaging complicated situation caused by the U.S. unilateral & unlawful withdrawal.”
Bagheri Kani added that his country “stand[s] ready to conclude the negotiations in a short order, should the other side be ready to do the same.”
What Bagheri Kani didn’t say was that his country believes the “US is looking for legal justifications to have ready for whenever it decides to refrain from implementing its side of the bargain," according to Mohammad Marandi, an adviser to the Iranian nuclear negotiations team.
