The statement comes as major powers await a response from Tehran to the proposed deal presented on July 26 by the European Union’s diplomatic chief Josep Borrell.
“The EU’s proposals are acceptable as long as they provide guarantees to Iran on several points,” the official IRNA news agency reported, quoting an unnamed Iranian diplomat.
Referring to international “sanctions”, he made clear that Tehran needed “assurances” that the United States would not jeopardize the agreement and was awaiting actions with the International Atomic Energy Agency.
After several months of deadlock, diplomats from all parties to the agreement (Iran, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany) returned to the Austrian capital on August 4 for another attempt to salvage, under the auspices of the European Union, the agreement struck in 2015.
The deal aims to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is for civilian use only, after Iran was accused of trying to develop atomic weapons, despite its denials.
But after the United States unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018, during the presidency of Donald Trump, and the re-imposition of US sanctions on Iran, Tehran has gradually moved away from fulfilling the obligations enshrined in the text.
The goal of the negotiations, in which the United States was indirectly involved, is to get the process back on track.
On Tuesday, a Borrell spokesman urged Tehran and Washington to “make a quick decision” on the final compromise reached in Vienna, saying it was a proposal to “take it or leave it.”
One major obstacle remains: Iran is asking the IAEA to close the issue of undeclared facilities where traces of enriched uranium have been identified.
On Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to “completely resolve this issue” by technical means” and to abandon “unrelated political issues”.
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