The Iranian nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri, will meet this week with European negotiator Enrique Mora in Brussels to discuss the resumption of talks in Vienna, according to the spokesman for the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Peter Stano.
(A meeting between the two men is scheduled this week, but there is no scheduled meeting with Josep Borrell, the coordinator of negotiations on the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the six major powers, Stano told AFP.)
began in April
It is noteworthy that Iran and the six countries began talks in April to revive the agreement, which US President Donald Trump withdrew from three years ago, before re-imposing Sanctions have paralyzed Iran’s economy.
In response to Trump’s re-imposition of sanctions, Tehran has violated the agreement by rebuilding and refining enriched uranium stocks to a higher fissile purity, and installing advanced centrifuges to speed up production.
I stopped in June
The talks were suspended after the Iranian presidential elections in June, which President Ebrahim Raisi won.
For its part, the United States and European countries are urging Tehran to return to negotiations, warning that time is running out because Iran’s uranium enrichment program is advancing beyond the limits set out in the nuclear agreement. It has repeatedly stated that it will return to negotiations, but it has not yet set a date.
