Iran. The eighth round of negotiations to relaunch the Iranian nuclear deal is underway in Vienna
by Alberto Galvi –
Negotiations to revive the 2015 Nuclear Agreement between Iran and major world powers have resumed in Vienna, with a meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) participants, which is the program in its original edition . The meeting took place with bilateral and trilateral meetings between the different delegations, but not directly between the Iranian and US representatives.
Tehran refuses to dialogue directly with Washington following the unilateral withdrawal of the United States in May 2018 and due to unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Iran has said it wants the lifting of all sanctions for oil sanctions imposed by the United States, a period to verify the lifting and written guarantees that it will not renege on the agreement again. These proposals still to be presented will be part of a third text, when agreement on the two initials is reached.
The eighth round will move forward by revolving around a new and acceptable joint document, which will focus on the texts developed during the previous six rounds from June 2021. The Iranian delegation has already said to stay in Vienna until an agreement is reached. ‘agreement.
The seventh round, which started last November, ended last week where only some modest results were reported. Participants who took part in the talks are Iran, China, Russia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The United States indirectly participated in the ongoing talks.
Iran in the eighth round has the capacity of its ability to keep the peaceful nuclear program at the negotiating table, developing only a civilian nuclear one. On the other hand, Western powers claim that its enriched uranium stocks are far beyond the allowable and could be used for military purposes. However, it should be noted that the IAEA has always certified Iran’s slavish compliance with the agreement, and that in the country the only nuclear power plant in the region is active, in the seventies and recently renovated by the Russian state company Rosatom. Only after the US withdrawal from the agreement and the introduction of sanctions did the Iranians start new centrifuges for enriching uranium.