Negotiations on the restoration of the Iran nuclear non-proliferation agreement have already been held under the leadership of the EU for more than a year. The final draft text is now ready, but it is still unclear whether Iran will accept it.
Leonard Wilhelmus,
Vilma Romsi
The EU has submitted a final draft proposal to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrel said on Twitter.
– Everything that can be negotiated has been negotiated, and it is now in the final text, says Borrel.
Britain, China, France, Germany, Iran, Russia and indirectly the United States have held negotiations through the EU.
– We worked for four days, and today the text is on the table, an anonymous EU official tells AFP.
Now the parties still have to approve the EU-formulated proposal, which, according to EU sources, no longer intends to open for new discussions.
The US State Department has already said that it is ready to seal the deal soon. According to the US, the EU draft is the only possible proposal on the basis of which the 2015 agreement can be rebuilt.
Russian negotiator Mikhail Ulyanov says on Twitter that the parties are now evaluating the show.
– If no one raises objections, the agreement will be reinstated, Uljanov says.
According to Iran’s state news agency IRNA, Iran still plans to make proposals for the motion. However, Iran is not going to comment further on the matter on Monday.
Trump scrapped the original deal
The original deal was signed in 2015 to curb Iran’s nuclear program. In return, the West promised to lift sanctions on Iran.
The agreement collapsed in 2018 when then-President of the United States Donald Trump Despite the opposition of China and EU countries, Russia unilaterally withdrew their country from it.
Under the leadership of Trump, the United States imposed sanctions against Iran, which also affected foreign companies doing business with Iran. The sanctions targeted Iran’s oil exports in particular, which damaged the country’s economy.
As a result of US sanctions, Iran also defaulted on its obligations and began to accelerate uranium enrichment again.
Negotiations to reinstate the agreement started under the leadership of the EU in April 2021, when Joe Biden had been elected president of the United States.