Deadlock: EU Foreign Minister, Joseph Burrell Fonts, Announced today (Friday) that “a halt to the nuclear talks in Vienna is needed.” This, in light of the demand of the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei LavrovBecause the US will guarantee a written guarantee that Moscow’s trade with Tehran will not be affected by US sanctions. Lavrov’s demands came several days after the first wave of sanctions by Western countries, due to the invasion of Ukraine.
Meanwhile, negotiations in Vienna are not over yet, and the US Secretary of State, Anthony BlinkenHe said that “Lavrov’s demands are irrelevant,” pointing out that the United States does not address them. .
In response to Blinken’s remarks, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said, Said Khatib Zada “Tehran tried to separate the negotiations in Vienna from Iran’s other issues with the West.” However, he noted that the Foreign Ministry was seeking further information from Moscow regarding its demands for American promises. Various sources involved in the details said they could not confirm the report that the nuclear talks had indeed been stopped.
The Iranian news agency IRNA reported that there were conflicting reports regarding the positions of the American delegation in recent days, which made the road to reaching a potential agreement difficult. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hussein Amir Abdulhian, Wrote on his Twitter account that “efforts are continuing to reach a good and lasting agreement. It is within reach, if the US acts consistently. We need a joint effort, logic must win. “
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As you may recall, the words of Joseph Burrell Fontales come after optimism prevailed around the table. Senior EU Envoy, Enrique Teacher, Who is coordinating the talks, said last Tuesday that the signing of the nuclear deal with Iran is imminent. In a tweet on his Twitter account, he wrote: “Just to clarify. There are no more ‘expert-level talks’, nor ‘official meetings’. It is time, in the coming days, for political decisions to end the talks in Vienna. Everything else is noise.”
The announcement came after the Iranian envoy left for consultations in Tehran and reported in the Iranian media that talks in Vienna are expected to continue. In Washington, White House press secretary Jen Pesky told reporters that the United States and its allies were “approaching” a nuclear deal with Iran, but that “important elements” still needed to be decided, she said without elaborating.