Iran Provides Feedback on US Response to EU's Draft Text
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said that Tehran expressed its opinion on the US response to an EU draft text for the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal.
“After receiving the United States’ response, the Islamic Republic’s expert team examined it carefully and Iran’s responses were compiled and submitted to the coordinator tonight,” Kan’ani said in early Friday.
"The text that was sent (by Iran) has a constructive approach aimed at finalizing the negotiations," he added.
The official added that Iran's response was created "following evaluation on various levels."
Despite Iran's full compliance with the agreement, the United States unilaterally withdrew from the historic agreement in 2018 and re-imposed crippling sanctions as part of the so-called "maximum pressure" campaign.
Numerous rounds of negotiations between the signatories to the agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have taken place in the Austrian capital since last year in order to explore the possibility of the agreement's revival and the lifting of the unjustified economic sanctions.
The persistent refusal of Washington to abide by Iran's red lines has caused numerous interruptions in the negotiations.
The European Union recently developed a draft proposal to resurrect the agreement, serving as the coordinator in the indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington. The bloc accepted Tehran's response, which it deemed to be "reasonable."
It took the United States several weeks to respond to Iran's remarks.
Speaking during a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said the country was reviewing the US’s response, but stressed the importance of "stronger guarantees" from the American side to clinch an agreement.
"We have received the American side's last text, and my colleagues are closely studying the response with the required [level of] rigor and speed," he remarked, flanked by Lavrov.
The top Iranian diplomat, however, asserted that Tehran needed a "stronger text and stronger guarantees" to wrap up the negotiations.
