Iran offered mixed signals on Thursday as a deadline loomed in talks over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers, with the Iranian president defending the negotiations while the country’s top diplomat and a security officer official accused the United States for the dead end.
The months-long indirect talks in Vienna sought both to get the United States to return to the agreement from which Washington unilaterally withdrew in 2018, and that Iran restore the limits on son rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Western diplomats have in recent days have signaled that the talks have come to a conclusion, laying the final decision with Iran. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of that of the country powerful Supreme National Security Council, wrote on Twitter early Thursday, trying instead blame america for the dead end.
“The American approach to Iran’s principled demands, coupled with its unreasonable offers and its unjustified pressure to reach an agreement quickly, show that the United States is not interested in a solid deal that would satisfy both parties,” Shamkhani wrote. in many languages. “American policy absent decisionthe talks are getting more complicated hour by hour.
Shamkhani and other Iranian officials have repeatedly projected Western complaints about the behavior throughout the negotiations back West.
Speaking at a press conference in Vienna Thursday evening, Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has been very discreet.
“It’s no secret that these negotiations – which are not my negotiations, we (the IAEA) participate and are consulted – that these negotiations come to a decisive point,” said Grossi.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian spoke on Thursday with Foreign European Union policy chef Josep Borrell – and also criticized America for what he described as conveying “a new and different message to us every day through a coordinator.”
“If the American side has a public opinion problemI must say that we also have a public opinion problem in Iran,” Amirabdollahian said, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. “They monitor the evolution with great sensitivity and precision and demand that the government respond and lift sanctions effectively and maintain a peaceful nuclear capability. »
However, Amirabdollahian added: “If realism governs behavior of all parties, we are still close to reaching a good and a strong chord.”
Earlier, hardPresident Ebrahim Raisi’s Twitter account seemed to offer cover for Iran’s theocracy for potentially supporting a possible OK in Vienna.
“The government makes negotiations in the way of that of the Supreme Leader framework and has not and will not withdraw from the red lines (which) have been announced,” he wrote.
‘Closing the window’ to strike Iran nuclear deal
The French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the opportunity to reach an agreement on revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world the powers were closing and calling on all sides to take one responsible approach to reach an agreement.
“We are very close to an agreement, but the window of the opportunity is closing,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre told reporters. in a daily briefing.
“We are concerned on the risks that additional delays pose to the possibility of final. Together with our E3 partners, we call on all parties to take a responsible approach and do decisions necessary to enter into this agreement. »
Iranian civilian government operates on narrow bandwidth under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who to the final to say on everything counts of State. However, divisions exist even within the hard-line camp of The Iranian theocracy – in particular on the nuclear deal and all the interactions with the west.
Khamenei himself also still offered rare vague remarks on the talks on Thursday, swearing that the restrictions on Iranian ballistic missiles programnuclear scientist progress and regional military Strategies remain non-negotiable.
In a speech to the Assembly of Iran of Experts, Khamenei said there was no one “more naive and clumsy than those who suggest discount of the defensive power” of Iran.
“Any of these arms of national power should be cut off”, Khamenei added. He warned that without son military capabilities and nuclear progressIran would face “great dangers” and “a blow to his national power.”
However, he said nothing directly about the looming deadline to reinstate the nuclear deal.
Russian ambassador in Vienna talks, Mikhail Ulyanov told reporters in Vienna on Wednesday that “maybe it will be finalized tomorrow, maybe – but it’s not for sureIran’s chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani joined the talks on Wednesday after a quick trip back in Tehran for consulting and met with European negotiator Enrique Mora.
Mora this week seemed to suggest whether the talks had succeeded or failed now rested with the Islamic Republic.
“There are no more ‘expert-level discussions’. Nor ‘formal meetings’,” Mora wrote. on Twitter, responding to comments from an Iranian analyst. “It’s time, in the next A few days, for Politics decisions to end the #ViennaTalks. The rest is noise.”
Mora’s comments mirror those of British and French negotiators. the latest ride, however, is a demand Saturday from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Blinken offers written guarantees over that of Moscow ability Continue trade with Iran face to penalties over it’s the war on Ukraine.
Meanwhile, amid the talks, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards announced On Tuesday, he launched a second reconnaissance satellite in space. Although not directly acknowledging the launch, a space catalog of objects maintained by the United States military now lists the Noor-2 satellite as having been launched by Iran on Tuesday. Its telemetry shows this in a stable orbit some 500 kilometers (310 miles) above the Earth’s surface.
“No sanction or restriction can stop the great nation of Iran to develop,” Amirabdollahian tweeted.
Iran offered mixed signals on Thursday as a deadline loomed in talks over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers, with the Iranian president defending the negotiations while the country’s top diplomat and a security officer official accused the United States for the dead end.
The months-long indirect talks in Vienna sought both to get the United States to return to the agreement from which Washington unilaterally withdrew in 2018, and that Iran restore the limits on son rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Western diplomats have in recent days have signaled that the talks have come to a conclusion, laying the final decision with Iran. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of that of the country powerful Supreme National Security Council, wrote on Twitter early Thursday, trying instead blame america for the dead end.
“The American approach to Iran’s principled demands, coupled with its unreasonable offers and its unjustified pressure to reach an agreement quickly, show that the United States is not interested in a solid deal that would satisfy both parties,” Shamkhani wrote. in many languages. “American policy absent decisionthe talks are getting more complicated hour by hour.
Shamkhani and other Iranian officials have repeatedly projected Western complaints about the behavior throughout the negotiations back West.
Speaking at a press conference in Vienna Thursday evening, Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has been very discreet.
“It’s no secret that these negotiations – which are not my negotiations, we (the IAEA) participate and are consulted – that these negotiations come to a decisive point,” said Grossi.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian spoke on Thursday with Foreign European Union policy chef Josep Borrell – and also criticized America for what he described as conveying “a new and different message to us every day through a coordinator.”
“If the American side has a public opinion problemI must say that we also have a public opinion problem in Iran,” Amirabdollahian said, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. “They monitor the evolution with great sensitivity and precision and demand that the government respond and lift sanctions effectively and maintain a peaceful nuclear capability. »
However, Amirabdollahian added: “If realism governs behavior of all parties, we are still close to reaching a good and a strong chord.”
Earlier, hardPresident Ebrahim Raisi’s Twitter account seemed to offer cover for Iran’s theocracy for potentially supporting a possible OK in Vienna.
“The government makes negotiations in the way of that of the Supreme Leader framework and has not and will not withdraw from the red lines (which) have been announced,” he wrote.
‘Closing the window’ to strike Iran nuclear deal
The French Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that the opportunity to reach an agreement on revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world the powers were closing and calling on all sides to take one responsible approach to reach an agreement.
“We are very close to an agreement, but the window of the opportunity is closing,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre told reporters. in a daily briefing.
“We are concerned on the risks that additional delays pose to the possibility of final. Together with our E3 partners, we call on all parties to take a responsible approach and do decisions necessary to enter into this agreement. »
Iranian civilian government operates on narrow bandwidth under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who to the final to say on everything counts of State. However, divisions exist even within the hard-line camp of The Iranian theocracy – in particular on the nuclear deal and all the interactions with the west.
Khamenei himself also still offered rare vague remarks on the talks on Thursday, swearing that the restrictions on Iranian ballistic missiles programnuclear scientist progress and regional military Strategies remain non-negotiable.
In a speech to the Assembly of Iran of Experts, Khamenei said there was no one “more naive and clumsy than those who suggest discount of the defensive power” of Iran.
“Any of these arms of national power should be cut off”, Khamenei added. He warned that without son military capabilities and nuclear progressIran would face “great dangers” and “a blow to his national power.”
However, he said nothing directly about the looming deadline to reinstate the nuclear deal.
Russian ambassador in Vienna talks, Mikhail Ulyanov told reporters in Vienna on Wednesday that “maybe it will be finalized tomorrow, maybe – but it’s not for sureIran’s chief negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani joined the talks on Wednesday after a quick trip back in Tehran for consulting and met with European negotiator Enrique Mora.
Mora this week seemed to suggest whether the talks had succeeded or failed now rested with the Islamic Republic.
“There are no more ‘expert-level discussions’. Nor ‘formal meetings’,” Mora wrote. on Twitter, responding to comments from an Iranian analyst. “It’s time, in the next A few days, for Politics decisions to end the #ViennaTalks. The rest is noise.”
Mora’s comments mirror those of British and French negotiators. the latest ride, however, is a demand Saturday from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Blinken offers written guarantees over that of Moscow ability Continue trade with Iran face to penalties over it’s the war on Ukraine.
Meanwhile, amid the talks, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guards announced On Tuesday, he launched a second reconnaissance satellite in space. Although not directly acknowledging the launch, a space catalog of objects maintained by the United States military now lists the Noor-2 satellite as having been launched by Iran on Tuesday. Its telemetry shows this in a stable orbit some 500 kilometers (310 miles) above the Earth’s surface.
“No sanction or restriction can stop the great nation of Iran to develop,” Amirabdollahian tweeted.