Negotiations with Iran to restore the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) could be negotiated due to Moscow’s new security, Germany, France and Britain have warned. No one should disregard the need to use the negotiation process to obtain a guarantee without mentioning anything to do with the 2015 nuclear deal, the two states’ joint demands circulated on Saturday, March 12, say.

A new agreement with Tehran has already been prepared and is to be evaluated for deliveries to Berlin, Paris and London. As demanded in Iran, which has been going on for several months, has been successful until recently, but a week ago Russia reached wide coverage that Western commitments for invading Ukraine would not affect Russian-Iranian trade. The West rejected them, and on March 11 it was decided to pause the negotiation process.

Russia’s demands in Iran considered unconstructive

On March 5, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sent written assurances from the United States that the Western commission would not affect Russia’s rights under the agreement with Iran and expressed doubts about the possibility of restoring nuclear transfer in this regard. “We need guarantees that these sanctions will in no way affect the regime of trade, economic and investment ties that is laid down in the JCPOA on the Iranian nuclear program,” the Russian minister said.

The demand of the Russian Federation was criticized in Tehran on the same day. “There is an understanding that, having changed its position at the negotiations in Vienna, Russia wants to have its interests elsewhere.

Negotiations with Iran in Vienna

In early February, escalations resumed in Vienna aimed at restoring the nuclear disease with Iran, which also resulted in Germany, France, Great Britain, China and Russia. The US allows conditional participation. On February 17, Washington reported significant progress and the possibility of inclusion in the near future.

The Joint Comprehensive Action Plan, which was joined in 2015 by Iran, the US, Russia, China, Germany, France and the UK, calls for Tehran to follow through on steps to limit its nuclear program in exchange for repeal of previous US and EU moves. It is expected that in May 2018 Tehran will fulfill part of the obligations under the JCPOA. Washington responded by tightening restrictive actions against Tehran.

Negotiations to return to compliance with the terms of the JCPOA were held in Venice in early 2021, but stalled after the election of Ebrahim Raisi, the hard-line president in relations with the West, as President of Iran. Meanwhile, Tehran continues to accumulate stocks of uranium enriched to levels that exceed those agreed in the JCPOA.

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