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After 16 months of negotiations to revive Iran’s nuclear deal, Iran’s foreign minister said Monday that multiple issues need to be resolved before the country can reach a final deal.
The European Union (EU) on Monday imposed a deadline for the world’s powers to agree to a “final document” of the deal, which would broadly allow Iran to ease sanctions in exchange for curtailing its nuclear program. is.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Monday that Iran must drop its “redundant” demands in the negotiations, including the lifting of sanctions against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“The only way to achieve a return to mutual compliance is to [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] Iran withdraws further unacceptable demands beyond the scope of the JCPOA,” Price said at a press conference.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdrahian said on Monday that there are three issues that still need to be resolved.
“We have shown enough flexibility,” Amiravdrahian said, Reuters reported. “We don’t want to reach a deal that we can’t reach in 40 days, two months, three months. [materialized] on the ground. “
EU negotiators are also outraged by Iran’s demands that the International Atomic Energy Agency investigate traces of uranium found at undeclared facilities.
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Former President Donald Trump withdrew from the original 2015 nuclear deal in 2018 and reimposed harsh sanctions on Iran, with Iran responding by violating the treaty’s restrictions on uranium enrichment.
Some U.S. Republican lawmakers have criticized the Biden administration against Iran following the attack on Salman Rushdie in New York and the plot by members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to assassinate former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton. asked to stop negotiations with Rushdie has faced fatwas seeking his death from the late Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran since 1989.
Reuters contributed to this report.