{"id":262462,"date":"2022-08-19T09:59:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T07:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=262462"},"modified":"2023-02-01T03:07:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T02:07:33","slug":"irans-regime-refuses-to-accept-final-draft-continues-its-policy-of-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/irans-regime-refuses-to-accept-final-draft-continues-its-policy-of-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Refuses To Accept \u201cFinal Draft,\u201d Continues Its Policy of Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iran-JCPOA-Nuclear\"<\/p>\n

The United States and the European Union both announced through spokespersons that they were \u201cstudying\u201d the response to what has been called the \u201cfinal text<\/a>\u201d of an agreement to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The relevant statements immediately cast doubt upon the prospect of a successful resolution to the negotiating process that has taken place, off and on, for over 17 months.<\/p>\n

The European Union\u2019s coordinator for those negotiations, Enrique Mora, presented the draft proposal last week with instructions for the US and Iran to respond by Monday and indicate whether they would accept the agreement in its current form. US officials responded immediately and in public by saying that the US was prepared to implement the agreement based on the EU\u2019s proposals, but Tehran made a point of signaling its intention to review the draft and then respond with comments.<\/p>\n

That response came, quite literally, at the last minute, with Iranian officials declaring in advance that they would make their comments available at midnight on Monday, thereby pushing the limits of the deadline imposed by the EU. Nabila Massrali, a spokesperson for the EU on foreign affairs and security policy, specifically cautioned against reading into the timing, but other persons familiar with the negotiating process have argued for weeks that the Iranian regime is following a deliberate strategy of extending the process as much as possible.<\/p>\n

This interpretation of the regime\u2019s actions is further supported by the contents of the Iranian regime\u2019s response. Few details of that response were given on Tuesday, either by Western parties or by Tehran itself, but it was immediately clear that it conveyed the expectation of additional talks. This intention appears to disregard prior comments from EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who stated that all avenues for compromise had been exhausted in previous rounds of negotiations and that the existing draft would undergo no further changes.<\/p>\n

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