In an interview with Turkey’s TRT television, Mohammad Marandi said if the US and the Europeans make a proper decision, there is a good chance that the 2015 nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will be restored within the next days.

In case America and the European troika — France, Britain and Germany — recognize Iran’s redlines and avoid attempting in vain to include issues unrelated to the JCPOA, there is an opportunity for achieving a deal in Vienna, he added.

“What is important to Iran is a good deal, not just any agreement,” he said. “Iran is in a hurry for a good deal because the cruel and inhumane sanctions imposed by the Americans and the Europeans are targeting women and children.”

Iran, however, will not make a mistake by entering a bad deal under economic pressure, he said, playing down the deadlines that the Western sides set in the course of the Vienna talks.

He said the Americans have all admitted to the failure of the “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran as well as to the progress in Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

“It is difficult to set a date [for a final deal]. It could be completely close, but it depends on whether the Americans and the Europeans are ready to take certain decisions. Issues have been resolved, only some of them remain pending a decision in Washington,” he added.

Abolfazl Hassanbeigi told IRNA that the US “has constantly been after getting concessions [from Iran] and is controlled by the Zionist regime.”

Although the Americans are tremendously interested in achieving a deal with Iran, Israel remains concerned of the Islamic Republic’s growing nuclear power, the ex-lawmaker said.
The Israelis, he said, “want a deal to be signed again but in a win-lose form.”

“Any way, on the one hand, the Americans have no other option but to achieve a deal, and on the other, the Islamic Republic will not accept a win-lose deal under any circumstances,” he said.

Meanwhile, Hassanbeigi added, the P4+1 group are also fed up with Washington’s behavior and “all parties, even the Europeans, are severely worried about the prolongation of the negotiations” in Vienna aimed at bringing the US back to the 2015 nuclear agreement.

He said the Iranians are currently seeking to fix the weak points that existed in the 2015 deal, referring to the conditions that allowed the US to easily abandon the multilateral deal.

The former legislator also said the American power is now on the decline, adding, “The world is no longer unipolar and the Islamic Republic will, under no circumstances, accept to sign an agreement that will have no benefits for the Iranian nation.”