{"id":262053,"date":"2022-08-04T21:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=262053"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:02:12","slug":"talks-to-revive-jcpoa-began-amid-iran-regimes-increasing-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/talks-to-revive-jcpoa-began-amid-iran-regimes-increasing-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Talks To Revive JCPOA Began Amid Iran Regime\u2019s Increasing Threats\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new round of talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal with world powers began today in Vienna. The negotiations began in April 2021 and resumed for only two days at the end of June, following a nearly four-month gap caused by Tehran\u2019s unwillingness to back away from irrelevant demands or engage in direct talks with the United States. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The new rounds of talks to revive the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), come a few days after White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk<\/a> publicly expressed the opinion that a deal to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is extremely unlikely in the wake of Tehran\u2019s latest delays and obstructions.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He noted that the regime\u2019s behavior suggested it was hopeful that the US and the deal\u2019s three European signatories \u2013 Britain, France, and Germany \u2013 would \u201cadd something to the pot,\u201d which would make the turns of a revived agreement even more favorable to Iran. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the prospect of further concessions was ostensibly ruled out last week by the European Union\u2019s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell<\/a>, when he introduced a new draft text and announced that it represented the best deal the Iranian regime would ever be offered.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Tehran appeared to reject the new draft, as it had done with a previous draft that was reportedly on the table when the negotiations broke down in Vienna in March. At the time, the regime\u2019s negotiators were reportedly informed that they would only be sent back to the Austrian capital to conclude an agreement on the regime\u2019s terms, following American capitulation to outstanding demands, including the demand for the removal of the terrorist Revolutionary Guards from the State Department\u2019s list of foreign terrorist organizations. In response to the new draft, the regime\u2019s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian<\/a> seemed to reiterate that position, tweeting that Tehran had its \u201cown ideas\u201d about how to resolve the impasse.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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