{"id":262731,"date":"2022-08-26T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=262731"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T20:30:07","slug":"tehran-repeats-unspecified-demands-while-blaming-us-for-delays-to-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/blog\/op-ed\/tehran-repeats-unspecified-demands-while-blaming-us-for-delays-to-nuclear-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran Repeats Unspecified Demands While Blaming US for Delays to Nuclear Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Palais Coburg, the site of a meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), in Vienna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By: Alejo Vidal-Quadras<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last Friday, the Iranian regime submitted its formal written response to what the European Union had presented as the “final text”<\/a> of an agreement to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). On Sunday, American officials spoke with counterparts from the deal’s European signatories \u2013 Britain, France, and Germany \u2013 about the prospects of that revival, as well as the need to jointly support Middle Eastern allies and constrain Tehran’s role in the region. And by Monday, Iranian officials were publicly accusing the United States of delaying the finalization of the process for resuming mutual compliance with the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

These accusations are ironic, considering that the Iranian regime has widely been considered responsible for a number of prior delays. Serious efforts to restore the JCPOA began in March of last year, but negotiations in the Austrian capital of Vienna were halted suddenly in June after Ebrahim Raisi was appointed<\/a> as the next Iranian president. For the ensuing five months, Tehran repeatedly asserted that internal discussions would need to play out before dialogue reopened between the regime and the so-called P5+1.<\/p>\n

When the Vienna talks finally resumed, Tehran went back to the negotiating table with an expanded set of demands and a generally more confrontational diplomatic posture. Soon, the Western signatories were each criticizing the Iranian regime for maintaining unreasonable positions which threatened the prospects for the deal’s revival. Nevertheless, some Western officials predicted that the negotiating process would conclude in early 2022, even going so far as to set unofficial deadlines for a final agreement. Yet these deadlines ultimately passed without publicly observable progress, and in March, just under a year since the negotiations began, the process stalled again.<\/p>\n

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1\u2014#Iran<\/a>\u2019s regime will not relinquish nuclear weapons. Its officials talk of bomb production.
Negotiations give Tehran the time needed. If the world doesn\u2019t want nuclear terrorists they must show firmness, reactivate UNSC resolutions & wide-ranging sanctions\/inspections. #JCPOA<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) August 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n