MADRID — A
possible meeting on resurrecting the Iran nuclear deal could be held “this
week” after
Tehran submitted its response to an EU proposal, the EU’s top
diplomat said Monday.
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Efforts to revive
the so-called JCPOA — the 2015 agreement between world powers and Tehran aimed
at curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions — are at a critical juncture.
“A meeting was
scheduled to take place in
Vienna at the end of last week, but it was not
possible,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told a news conference in
Santander, Spain.
“It is possible
that it could take place this week.”
Earlier this month,
after more than a year of talks coordinated by Borrell and his team, the EU
submitted what it called a “final” text.
The document aims
at fully restoring the nuclear deal by bringing the US back into it, after
then-president Donald Trump had Washington withdraw in 2018.
That move prompted
Iran to roll back its commitments under the JCPOA and steadily enrich its stock
of uranium to close to weapons-grade levels.
Borrell said the
negotiations had gone as far as they could go and “this is the inflection
point”.
“There was an
Iranian response that I considered reasonable to transmit to the US.
“The US has not
formally replied yet. But we are waiting for their response and I hope that
response will allow us to finish the negotiation — I hope so, but I can’t
assure you of it.”
The other parties in the
JCPOA are Britain, China, France,
Germany, and Russia.
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