The delegations held a dialogue in the Qatari capital, with the mediation of the EU. Brussels explains that talks will continue to reinstate the JCPOA, a “key agreement”. One of the central points of controversy is the removal of the Pasdaran from the US list of terrorist organizations.
Doha () – The (indirect) talks between Tehran and Washington on Iranian nuclear development, which were taking place in Doha, the capital of Qatar, with the aim of saving the 2015 agreement (JCPOA) have ended in a deadlock. disavowed by Donald Trump three years later. The result of this meeting, pointed out the envoy of the European Union Enrique Mora, did not translate into the advances that “the EU team, as coordinator, would have expected and desired.” “We will continue to work – added the European diplomat – with the greatest urgency possible, to get back on track a key agreement for non-proliferation and regional stability”.
A note signed by a US State Department spokesman states that Iran “has not responded positively to the EU initiative and for that reason… no progress has been made.” The Brussels-mediated talks began on June 28 with the coordination of Mora, who spoke alternately with the Iranian delegation led by Ali Bagheri Kani and the US special envoy for Iran, Rob Malley, who were occupying two different rooms of a hotel in Doha.
Tehran has rejected direct talks and opted for “proximity” talks under the auspices of the EU. According to the semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim, the spokesman for the Tehran Foreign Ministry, Naser Kanani, declared that Bagheri Kani and Mora “will remain in contact to continue the path” and start “the next phase of talks.”
In March the nuclear deal seemed poised to take flight, but after 11 months of talks in Vienna between Tehran and world powers, it is far from done. The core of the controversy is related to the Islamic Republic government’s request to the US counterpart to remove the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC, the Pasdaran) from the list of terrorist organizations (FTO). “Iran – explains a spokesman for the State Department – has raised issues completely unrelated” to the Tehran nuclear agreement and “apparently is not prepared to make a fundamental decision: if it wants to relaunch the agreement or sink it completely”.
The Tasnim agency, affiliated with the Pasdaran, accuses the Biden administration “of weakness and inability to make a final decision”, which stalls the talks. “What prevents these negotiations from succeeding – the text continues – is the insistence of the United States on the draft text that it proposed in Vienna, which excludes any guarantee that it constitutes an economic benefit for Iran”.
Mohammad Marandi, an adviser to the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna, said the Doha talks have not “failed” despite disputes between the parties, and that negotiations “will continue” in the future. He added that two days is not enough to discuss the many outstanding issues. In addition, regarding the failure of the meeting in Qatar, he explained that the delegates from Tehran “do not take the statements of the American press seriously” and that Washington must “offer guarantees that it will not stab us in the back as happened in the past”. “To reintroduce the nuclear agreement, the sanctions must be lifted,” the expert concluded. “The negotiations in Doha have not failed and will continue.”
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