DUBAI (Reuters) – The reluctance of the United Sates to lift all sanctions on Iran is the main problem to reviving the 2015 nuclear pact, a senior Iranian overseas ministry official was cited as saying by Iranian media on Sunday.
Indirect talks between Washington and Tehran on reinstating their nuclear pact broke off https://www.reuters.com/world/center-east/iran-nuclear-talks-break-friday-with-formal-assembly-officers-2021-12-03 on Friday, with either side saying they might resume the next week, as Western officers voiced dismay at sweeping calls for by the Islamic Republic.
“It is now clear that Washington’s reluctance to surrender sanctions altogether is the main problem to the progress of the talks,” the unnamed official was quoted as saying by Iran’s Tasnim information company.
“We imagine {that a} deal is inside attain if the U.S. authorities offers up its marketing campaign of most stress and the European events present critical flexibility and political will within the talks.”
Iran and main powers began talks in April geared toward bringing again Tehran and Washington into full compliance with the pact, which was deserted by former U.S. President Donald Trump three years in the past.
But the talks stopped after the election of Iran’s hardline President Ebrahim Raisi in June.
A yr after Trump’s reimposition of harsh sanctions on Iran, Tehran started to regularly violate nuclear limits of the settlement.
Iran desires all sanctions imposed by the United States to be lifted in a verifiable course of.
While stressing that the United States nonetheless wished to revive the deal, underneath which Iran had restricted its nuclear program in return for aid from financial sanctions, a senior U.S. State Department official mentioned on Saturday time was operating quick.
(Writing by John Irish and Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Raissa Kasolowsky)
