U.S.’s Excessive Demands
U.S.’s Excessive Demands
While the U.S. pretends it is willing to strike a deal with Iran on its nuclear program, its words and acts are in contradiction  and the world is gradually realizing how the U.S. is seeking excessive demands and the Islamic Republic of Iran is right to resists and not to accept the U.S.’s return to the JCPOA.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – While the U.S. pretends it is willing to strike a deal with Iran on its nuclear program, its words and acts are in contradiction  and the world is gradually realizing how the U.S. is seeking excessive demands and the Islamic Republic of Iran is right to resists and not to accept the U.S.’s return to the JCPOA.

The new round of the Vienna talks ended on last Friday and it is to continue in upcoming days if the Western parties are really serious to continue. The U.S. despite its barking in the media is willing to continue talks and supporting diplomatic solutions but it wants it to happen through its bully and threat in order to dictate its position as the world power.

Despite the U.S. claims that the Islamic Republic of Iran intends to prolong talks to boost its enrichment process, this is the West which likes to prolong the talks in order to worsen economic condition in Iran whose economy unfortunately has been tied to the result of the talks during the former government.

Reacting to this claim, a senior official at Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the U.S. is unwilling to remove the sanctions it has imposed on Iran and this is the main hurdle that impedes the progress of negotiations in the Austrian capital whose main goal is to secure the removal of all the illegal sanctions targeting Tehran.

“Now, it is crystal clear that the U.S. reluctance to fully drop the sanctions is the main challenge for the progress of negotiations,” the unnamed official was quoted by the ministry as saying .

“We believe that anytime the US administration abandons the maximum pressure campaign, and Europeans demonstrate necessary political determination, the way will be opened for the swift attainment of an agreement,” he added.

The official explained that the new Iranian administration of President Ebrahim Raisi has adopted a “pragmatic approach” and has striven to send a very capable negotiating team to Vienna “with a mandate to reach a good deal.”

“One of the issues emphasized before the start of the present round of negotiations was that the Islamic Republic of Iran should participate in the Vienna talks with proper decision-making power and expert capacity so as to make sure that, to a possible extent, the texts and drafts and positions of the Iranian delegation are clear of any deficiencies.”

The seventh round of high-level talks between Iran and the other parties to the Iran nuclear agreement was held in the Austrian capital between Monday and Friday, after a five-month hiatus.

 

High on the agenda of the talks was the removal of U.S. sanctions against Iran that would pave the way for the US return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, three years after it unilaterally left the deal and reinstated economic sanctions on Iran.

At the talks, the first under President Raisi, the Iranian delegation presented two detailed draft texts: one on the removal of U.S. sanctions and the other on Iran’s return to its nuclear commitments under the JCPOA.

During the briefing, the senior Iranian official said Iran’s proposed draft texts were prepared based on the draft texts of the last six rounds, noting that Iran applied certain editions and offered new proposals based on those texts.

The unnamed official suggested that the U.S. and its European allies were surprised at Iran’s draft texts, which were “in full compliance with the JCPOA, the UNSC Resolution 2231 and common principles of the past negotiations,” saying that is why they immediately proposed the idea of “halting the talks and returning to capitals for consultations.”

Nevertheless, the Iranian delegation was prepared to continue the negotiations until whenever necessary, the official added.

The official further criticized the Western countries’ unwillingness to re-negotiate the drafts formulated in the last six rounds and underlined that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.”

Dismissing criticisms over Iran’s new proposals, the senior Foreign Ministry official said since the proposals are “definitely based on the logic of the JCPOA, one cannot describe them as maximalist.”

“But the thing is that unfortunately, the other party has adopted a minimalist approach in terms of its commitments.”

Iran’s stance in the talks is crystal clear and the Western parties can end the talks successfully only through lifting all sanctions instead of prolongation of talks because the Islamic Republic of Iran is not ready to commit the same mistake which it committed in 2015 by blindly trusting the West and this time it is a different story as the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution has reiterated, Iran only let the U.S. return to the JCPOA when it lifts all sanctions and they are verified, and it is not ready to accept any interim proposal and giving concessions.

Tehran and its negotiating team is strongly determined to get a win-win result from the talks not in words but in action, something that was missing in the 2015 deal which was totally in favor of the West but it will not happen again and if the West intends to prolong the talks and harden the economic condition in the country, it is fully mistaken because Iranians will pass this stage too because since the victory of the Islamic Revolution they have experienced different U.S. sanctions and have lived up with them and overcome them. Of course Iranians do not like or support sanctions but they are not ready and  do not want its removal at the expense of humility and losing its dignity.

So the ball is on the U.S. court whether to accept Iran’s proposal or to continue its baseless claim and excessive demands against Tehran.