Wall Street Journal: European significant concessions to Iran over the nuclear deal
The Wall Street Journal revealed, Thursday, that the European Union is proposing “significant” concessions to Iran in order to revive the nuclear agreement.
The Wall Street Journal newspaper also indicated that European Union diplomats are offering a way to end an investigation by the International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations, which Iran wants to close, before signing any pending agreement to revive the nuclear agreement.
This comes after the European Union said at the beginning of the week that it had submitted a “final” text to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, after four days of indirect talks between US and Iranian officials in Vienna.
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said on Twitter: “What can be negotiated has been negotiated and is now a final text.
However, behind every technical issue and every paragraph lies a political decision to be made in the capitals” of the countries concerned.
“If these answers are positive, we can sign this agreement,” he added as negotiators from the European Union, Iran and the United States prepared to leave Vienna.
Earlier, a senior EU official told reporters that no further changes could be made to the text that had been under negotiation for 15 months and added that he expected a final decision from the parties within “a very few weeks”.
On the other hand, Iranian sources close to the decision sources revealed that the end of the negotiations bore a positive impression, and news is supposed to be heard next week, but now the negotiations have stopped, after the end of the Shiite celebration of Ashura.
The same sources revealed that Iran showed flexibility in these negotiations, by relinquishing some of the demands that it was clinging to previously, while it clung to other demands, and is waiting for the US administration to respond to them.
As a high-ranking Iranian diplomat, who was close to the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna, said, “Attitudes are changing in Tehran… There are many motives that pushed things to change, after internal discussions between Iranian leaders… Agreeing to resume negotiations, and easing a few Iranian demands, to show Tehran’s goodwill toward restoring the nuclear agreement.
According to the same source, it was the high command in Tehran who encouraged the Iranian Foreign Ministry to resume indirect nuclear negotiations with the United States at the earliest opportunity.
“The negative economic impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the Iranian economy cannot be denied.
Iranian leaders do not want to disturb the lives of the people; Therefore, resuming the nuclear negotiations was a good solution,” the spokesperson says.
Although the Iranian diplomat confirmed Tehran’s great desire to resume nuclear negotiations in Vienna, in the hope of reaching a deal to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, he didn’t hide his concern that these attempts would sabotage at any moment.
The spokesman added that “there is a seriousness from the Iranian side to reach a deal as soon as possible, and with a compromise that satisfies all parties, but at the same time, concerns about the United States sabotaging Iranian efforts remain”.
