All News about Iran Nuclear Program – The Iran nuclear deal and the country’s nuclear energy program have been a focus of media reports in Iran and the world since the onset of nuclear talks between Tehran and the P5+1, which resulted in the JCPOA in 2015, and its implementation in 2016. The “Nuclear” section of IFP News offers an up-to-date coverage of these reports.
Iran’s foreign minister has once more rejected any deadlines for the Vienna talks on the 2015 nuclear deal, after the US said the window for a deal with Iran is closing.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says the US refusal to cease sticking to former president Donald Trump’s failed policies is the main hurdle to acceptable progress in the Vienna talks.
The White House has reached out at all levels to members of US Congress as well as their staff to discuss Washington’s approach to Iran, an American diplomat confirms. It comes after dozens of senators from the Republican Party called on the administration to relay the terms of any new deal with Tehran to the Congress for approval.
Washington believes it has until the end of February to salvage the Iran nuclear agreement, otherwise the US will have to change track and launch aggressive efforts to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, according to three administration officials. Iran has repeatedly said it will not accept any deadline, while seeking a good and prompt agreement.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has said there are divisions within the US ruling system over its return to the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, JCPOA.
Journalists have flocked back to the Palais Hotel Coburg in Vienna, where negotiators from Iran and the P4+1 group of states have gathered for a new round of talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal.
European diplomats are optimistic about efforts by Iran and the US to close remaining differences on steps to revive the 2015 nuclear deal in the near future, EU high representative for foreign affairs Josep Borrell says.
A source close to the Iranian negotiating team in Vienna says the delegation has consulted and coordinated with the highest-ranking decision makers of the Iranian establishment and has a clear agenda for talks in four main fields.
A member of the Iranian parliament’s presiding board has quoted Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdolalhain as saying that Iran will continue the Vienna talks until it obtains effective guarantees from the other sides.
A group of 33 Republican senators have warned US President Joe Biden that they would work to thwart implementation of any new Iran nuclear agreement if his government did not allow Congress to review and vote on its terms.
A senior Iranian security official says the US has illusions concerning the Vienna talks warning that an agreement will not materialize if those illusions persist.
The United States has announced a nuclear deal was possible with Iran but that an agreement had to be completed urgently as Tehran advances its capabilities. Iran’s foreign minister has already said Tehran seeks a good and prompt agreement in the Vienna talks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says the western sides in the nuclear talks in Vienna should make serious and effective decisions on removal of anti-Iran sanctions for an agreement to emerge.
Russia’s top negotiator Mikhail Ulyanov has warned against reckless steps that can undermine the Vienna talks aimed at reviving the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). He says a final document on the restoration of the Iran nuclear deal has already been drafted.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani has rejected any agreement with the P4+1 in Vienna that does not lead to the removal of anti-Iran sanctions.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says making an agreement in Austria over Iran’s nuclear programe depends on Tehran. Germany is among the signatories to the Iran nuclear deal that did not live up to their commitments under the JCPOA.
A former Iranian lawmaker has said the notion of enriched uranium to 90% purity seems highly suspicious and Iran should avoid playing into the hands of warmongers like the Zionist regime.
US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley on Sunday said he would soon return to Austria’s capital for the next round of negotiations aimed at salvaging the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, insisting it could still be revived.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian reaffirms Iran’s policy regarding the Vienna talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, JCPOA, saying Tehran will only accept a good deal, not a temporary or limited one.
The European parties to the Iran nuclear negotiations have urged Tehran to seize the “opportunity” of the US sanctions waiver to Iran’s nuclear program.
