Negotiators show their satisfaction after the recovery of the discussions supposed to revive the 2015 agreement.
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A square of tables in a living room while gilding and ice of the Coburg Palace: the negotiations intended to save the Iranian nuclear agreement resumed, Monday, November 29, in the cozy atmosphere of a Viennese palace . The Iranian delegation, expected for five months, was present alongside French, German, British, Russian and Chinese negotiators.
Only were missing in the American room, with whom Iranians do not want to speak directly. It is their return in the agreement denounced by the former President of the United States Donald Trump here are three years that it is to organize. His successor, Joe Biden, had the rescue of the 2015 compromise a priority, before the first discussions in that sense, in the spring, are suspended due to presidential election in Iran.
Very awaited, the reunion allowed to enter right away from the subject. While the predictions are unfavorable as to the survival of the Agreement on Nuclear, everyone wanted to prove voluntarism. “I am extremely satisfied with what I saw today,” said the coordinator of the European Union Enrique Mora, at the end of the first hours of exchange. According to the latter, the Iranians “have agreed that the work done during the first six cycles is a good basis for building our future work”. One way to give wages to Western delegations, who want to take over the negotiations where they had been suspended, without expanding them.
For their part, the Iranian representatives immediately required the lifting of the sanctions imposed by the Americans since their withdrawal of the agreement, whether or not they are linked to the nuclear program. An unacceptable condition for the Biden administration, although it has been agreed to continue discussions on the subject. “The fact that all parties present at the meeting accepted Iran’s request, namely that the issue of illegal and unjust sanctions imposed by the United States first settled, (…) constitutes a major step forward” , however, assured Ali Bagheri Kani.
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The Iranian Chief Negotiator also requested the guarantee that the United States never comes out of a new arrangement. Tehran still claims compensation by Washington for the termination of the original agreement and a period of verification to be able to ensure that Iran is able to benefit from the economic benefits of a possible compromise, before complying with its commitments .
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