{"id":332230,"date":"2025-05-29T22:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=332230"},"modified":"2025-05-29T22:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T21:30:40","slug":"tehran-signals-deep-anxiety-as-nuclear-talks-advance-and-oversight-tightens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/nuclear\/tehran-signals-deep-anxiety-as-nuclear-talks-advance-and-oversight-tightens\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran Signals Deep Anxiety as Nuclear Talks Advance and Oversight Tightens"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian regime\u2019s delegation in consultation during nuclear talks in Oman, April 12, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In a rare and increasingly panicked tone, Iran\u2019s state media and nuclear officials have voiced mounting concern throughout nuclear negotiations with the United States. The regime is growing visibly alarmed that any concessions made in the talks could provoke internal instability and erode its strategic position, both domestically and regionally.<\/p>\n

On June 27, the hardline Kayhan newspaper<\/a><\/em>, closely aligned with the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, published a bold headline demanding clarity: \u201cFive Rounds of Negotiation on Enrichment\u2014Where is Sanctions Relief?!\u201d The article criticized the Iranian negotiating team for failing to secure the lifting of sanctions and warned that talks have centered too narrowly on uranium enrichment without addressing Iran\u2019s fundamental economic demands. It derided discussions of a \u201ctemporary agreement\u201d as a repeat of the \u201cdisastrous\u201d 2015 nuclear deal, pointing to the concrete poured into the Arak heavy water reactor as a symbol of irreversible loss.<\/p>\n

At the heart of this anxiety is the regime\u2019s recognition that any meaningful restrictions on its nuclear program would not only undercut its ability to develop a nuclear weapon\u2014long viewed as a guarantor of regime survival\u2014but also signal weakness to its own forces and regional proxies. Such a signal, officials fear, could invite rebellion or disengagement.<\/p>\n

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These new reports only confirm what the NCRI has exposed for years: the #Iranian<\/a> regime never abandoned its nuclear weapons project\u2014it just perfected concealment to fool Western intelligence and the @iaeaorg<\/a>.https:\/\/t.co\/EiJenArCtm<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/9Uq61tdRPT<\/a><\/p>\n

— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) May 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n