{"id":263224,"date":"2022-09-03T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T09:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=263224"},"modified":"2023-02-06T16:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T15:08:38","slug":"back-and-forth-with-iran-still-casts-doubt-on-finality-of-nuclear-draft-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/back-and-forth-with-iran-still-casts-doubt-on-finality-of-nuclear-draft-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-and-Forth With Iran Still Casts Doubt on Finality of Nuclear Draft Text"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Friday Iranian regime presented its formal response to a US proposal regarding the \u201cfinal text\u201d of the deal to restore the 2015 nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. However, regime authorities and state media outlets have remained vague on this topic, avoiding deadlines or firm commitments and explicitly stating that the negotiating process could stretch on through September.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, 50 members<\/a> of the US House of Representatives have written a letter to the US President urging his administration to exit that process and accept the collapse of the JCPOA, rather than risk implementing an agreement that excessively benefits the Iranian regime while failing to definitively halt its progress toward a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n

Concerns over that progress were amplified yet again on Wednesday when the International Atomic Energy Agency issues a report that confirmed an underground nuclear facility in Natanz had begun feeding uranium through the second of three \u201ccascades\u201d of advanced enrichment centrifuges. This move marks the latest in a long series of the Iranian regime escalations evidently intended to pressure its Western negotiating partners into conceding the final points of disagreement over the JCPOA.<\/p>\n

Under the terms of that 2015 agreement, the Iranian regime was expected to limit its enrichment to 3.67 percent fissile purity and to avoid stockpiling more than 300 kg of the substance. Today, the regime is enriching uranium to 60 percent<\/a>, putting it just a short technical step away from weapons grade, and its stockpile has grown to at least 3,800 kg, giving the regime more than enough to develop one nuclear weapon should it decide to \u201cbreak out\u201d.<\/p>\n

New questions arose over the possible implications of these advancements on Sunday when details of the so-called final text reached the international press. It is now anticipated that the full re-implementation of the JCPOA will take place in four phases over 165 days, but it is presently unclear whether that process will involve imposing substantial restrictions on the Iranian regime\u2019s nuclear activity before or after the regime gains access to unfrozen assets and other economic benefits.<\/p>\n

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"Amid Iran-sponsored terror plots to assassinate former U.S. officials and Iranian-American dissidents on American soil, this is no time to remove, suspend, or dilute U.S. terrorism sanctions on Iran or the IRGC," wrote 50 House members. Indeed, this is time to #ProsecuteRaisiNOW<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/oDMVzqeOU0<\/a><\/p>\n

— Alireza Jafarzadeh (@A_Jafarzadeh) September 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n