(C) Common Dreams
This story was originally published by Common Dreams and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .
Iran-U.S. Nuclear Negotiations Restart [1]
['Steven Erlanger']
Date: 2022-08-04
BRUSSELS — With Iran announcing this week that it now has the technical ability to produce a nuclear warhead, though denying that it plans to, negotiators from the United States and Iran arrived on Thursday in Vienna for one more — and perhaps the last — effort to restore the 2015 nuclear deal that limited Tehran’s nuclear program.
Expectations for the talks, chaired by the European Union, were low. But the negotiations may also lead to a more serious round if the two sides are willing to move on what they have both described as their red lines and make some politically fraught concessions.
The lead negotiator for the United States, Rob Malley, and his Iranian counterpart, Ali Bagheri Kani, traveled to Vienna for the talks after the European Union tabled a draft that is slightly amended from a text largely agreed upon in March. That prompted some hope that Washington and Tehran would in the end agree to revive the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which former President Donald J. Trump abandoned in 2018, calling it “the worst deal in history.”
Mr. Trump deliberately complicated any chance of revival, not only reimposing severe economic sanctions on Tehran that were lifted in the deal but also imposing hundreds more.
[END]
---
[1] Url:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/04/world/middleeast/us-iran-nuclear-deal.html
Published and (C) by Common Dreams
Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0..
via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/commondreams/
