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A spokesman for the community club said they are studying and analyzing the document raised by Tehran. Although there are no specifications, it has three modified points, one of them on the guarantees so that the agreement lasts over time. On Monday, an Iranian official said they “are closer than they’ve ever been” to closing the negotiations and called on the US to put its flexibility on paper.
This Tuesday, August 16, the European Union confirmed that it is examining the counterproposal made by Iran regarding the nuclear pact -also called the JCPOA-, at a time when the negotiations seem to enter their final stage after 16 months of intermittent talks. Now, both sides have shown signs of flexibility to finish the matter.
“At the moment we are studying it and consulting with the other participants of the JCPOA and with the United States on the way forward,” said Brussels Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Nabila Massrali.
In addition, Massrali avoided speculating about a deadline to respond, but assured that they will do so in “a few weeks.”
Iran’s response came on Monday night, after the foreign minister asked the West for “more flexibility” in agreeing three remaining strands.
Of them, there are two where Washington showed a predisposition to reach a middle ground, but it remains to be put on paper, according to the official IRNA news agency.
The pitfalls to reach an agreement between the parties
Although there are no revelations about the contents of the EU’s final offer or the Iranian counterproposal, one of the items that remains in discord is about the guarantees requested by the Asians so that the pact cannot be broken unilaterally by a US administration in a future, as happened with Donald Trump.
Another point is about the closure of an investigation that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is keeping open on the origin of traces of uranium in three places not notified by Tehran.
While there were positive advances regarding the punishments imposed by the White House on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (GRI), an aspect that prevented the negotiations from prospering.
Mohamed Marandí, Iran’s communication adviser in the nuclear talks, issued optimistic messages to complete the agreement at once. “Can’t say there is, but we are closer than we’ve ever been before,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
For his part, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir Abdolahian, stressed the willingness to sign “if the ‘red lines’ are respected.”
“One of the reasons it’s gone on so long is because we don’t want to cross those red lines,” he said.
Finally, he answered the criticism of the national Parliament, where several deputies were dissatisfied with the content of the pact.
In the first days of August, the European Union put on the table a “final” offer to end the talks and restore a nuclear agreement that would ease economic sanctions on Tehran in exchange for them abandoning the development of atomic energy.
That the Asians evolve in the nuclear field would pose a concrete threat to the Middle East, where it maintains high tensions with different States, such as Israel, and could lead to a war scale.
In fact, although the Government of Iran clarified that they did not have the objective of attacking Israel, it warned of a “crushing” response to any aggression.
With EFE and Reuters
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