Iranian nuclear power plant, a new deal is close after Trump’s departure in 2018
JERUSALEM – It could be a matter of hours, days at most. According to some of the protagonists of the Vienna negotiations, the agreement for a new nuclear deal Iraniano would now be within reach. “We are very close,” he said on Twitter Thursday evening Stephanie Al-Qaq, a head of the British delegation, writing in Farsi. “Now we have to take the last steps”.
So while the war rages in Ukraine, the USA, Great Britain, France and Germany, it continues to work with Russia (the so-called Five plus one group) in the Viennese capital with the agreement signed in 2015 Based on the cancellation of economic sanctions against Tehran in exchange of temporary restrictions on its nuclear program.
Abandoned by the administration trump in 2018, the plan included among other things that the Republic of Ayatollahs reduce its enriched uranium supply and freeze the use of about two thirds of its centrifuges, leaving theIran about a year of work from the possibility of building an atomic weapon. From 2019 onwards, however, Tehran’s nuclear program has started to run again and according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea), the country can currently count on a 60% enriched uranium stock of over 33 kilograms, fifteen kilos more than in November. Another seven may already be enough to produce a weapon.
Nuclear Iran, the US removes some sanctions: the negotiations in Vienna in a decisive phase. Tehran: “Good measures, but not enough”
by Gabriella Colarusso
For this reason, Americans and Europeans have tried the situation to press on the accelerator to come to an agreement before the on the ground makes it impossible. Now the turning point seems to be near even if the same Western representatives admit that there is no shortage of knots to unravel. “We are close to a possible agreement, but a series of difficult questions still remain unsolved,” said a deputy spokesman for the US State Department. Jalina Porter. “If theIran show seriousness, we can and must reach an agreement on the mutual return to full implementation of the JCPOA within a few days “, he added, using the acronym of the document signed in 2015 (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
On Friday, however, the foreign minister of Tehran Hossein Amirabdollahian stated that the “haste” of the West “will not hinder compliance with the red lines of theIran“Among the regime’s requests, that of removing the Guards Corps of the Islamic Revolution – which among other things offer support to various other groups in the Middle East, including the Lebanese Hezbollah – from the list of terrorist organizations of the American government.
Iranian nuclear, Israeli Prime Minister Bennett: “We are not against an agreement if it is a good agreement”
by Vincenzo Nigro
A visit to Tehran by the Director General of the IAEA is scheduled for Saturday Raffaele Grossi, a step interpreted by many analysts as a further sign of the proximity of an agreement. In fact, among the points to be resolved for a new agreement there is also the fate of the agency’s investigation into the nuclear material found by inspectors at sites Iranclosed for some time.
Just to discuss the issue, the Israeli premier Naftali Bennett he phoned Grossi on the eve of the trip, reiterating Jerusalem’s expectation that the organization presents itself as a super partes actor. Israel is strenuously opposed to reaching an agreement it believes will not help prevent theIran while the atomic weapon will strengthen its regime and its ability to undermine security in the Middle East. “We are following the nuclear talks in Vienna and we hope they will end without an agreement, but also with an agreement, our assessment is that the Iranians will continue to behave from Iraniani, ”Bennett said during a lecture at Tel Aviv University on Thursday.
“We see it already now: while the officials of the Foreign Ministry Iraniano are negotiating with the superpowers in Vienna, the Revolutionary Guard acts as the bully of the neighborhood and attacks the UAE and other locations. If you sign an agreement and renew the flow of money, we know that their aggressive behavior will only intensify. We in Israel are ready. We will continue to take sides against them in every way. No agreement will prevent us from protecting our citizens, ”he added.