EU foreign policy chief proposes new draft nuclear agreement with Iran - Reuters
The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has proposed a new draft text to restore the nuclear deal with Iran
This is reported by Reuters.
"After 15 months of intense, constructive negotiations in Vienna and countless interactions with the JCPOA participants and the US, I have concluded that the space for additional significant compromises has been exhausted", Borrell said.
According to Borrell, he has put a text on the
table that details the lifting of sanctions, as well as the nuclear steps necessary to restore the JCPOA.
Borrell did not give details of his proposal, but suggested, as many Western officials have before, that time is running out to revive the deal, under which Iran curbed its nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic sanctions.
"It is now time for swift political decisions to conclude the Vienna negotiations on the basis of my proposed text and to immediately return to a fully implemented JCPOA," he wrote.
According to Borrell, if the agreement is rejected, the world risks facing a dangerous nuclear crisis "against the prospect of increasing isolation of Iran and its people".
Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, confirmed that Borrell had put forward a new proposal and added that he had his own ideas.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that Washington was reviewing the "draft understanding" Borrell shared with Iran and other parties to the 2015 deal and would respond directly to the EU.
It is known that in 2015, Iran, the United States, Russia, China, Germany, France, and Great Britain signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran's nuclear program (JCPOA), the so-called nuclear deal. Its purpose is to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons.
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