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Al-Monitor – Iranian negotiators have presented “new solutions” to settle “the remaining issues” in Vienna, reported the IRNA news agency, echoing the official stance of the government of hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi.
The latest round of talks resumed last week in the Austrian capital, where Tehran and world powers have engaged in intense diplomacy to reinstate the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
Any such deal, the IRNA added, is dependent on US willingness to give up its “unrealistic demands” and “make decisions on sanctions relief” as the negotiations have entered the “finale.”
“JCPOA revival calling at last station,” read a headline from the Reformist daily Ebtekar. The paper quoted sources close to the negotiations as hailing a “constructive environment” where “serious discussions are continuing on the remaining issues.”
Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told his British counterpart Liz Truss that the progress was due to “the Iranian side’s rational approach and initiative.”
Earlier on Monday, spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh declared that the talks are not deadlocked and that Tehran is pressing the American side on “concrete guarantees” for sanctions relief.
“America’s proven dishonesty is the biggest threat jeopardizing any agreement,” the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, tweeted on Tuesday. “Verification and guarantees remain inseparable parts of a good deal,” he added.
In their public comments throughout the course of the talks, Iranian authorities have persistently called for “results-oriented diplomacy.” They have kept the bar high for full sanctions relief, which Shamkhani says will provide the Islamic Republic with “reliable and sustainable economic dividends.”
To the country’s most radical and uncompromising hard-liners, the closed-door meetings have proven nerve racking. Ultraconservative outlet Kayhan advised Iranian diplomats to stay vigilant and told them not to fall for US promises by making sure that “America will not sell us removal of the sanctions that have already been neutralized.”
The paper suggested that “credible reports and statistics have already marked growth in Iranian oil revenues even as US sanctions have been in place.”
