{"id":9732,"date":"2022-08-01T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=9732"},"modified":"2022-08-01T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:06:07","slug":"iran-says-optimistic-after-eu-proposal-for-nuclear-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/iran-says-optimistic-after-eu-proposal-for-nuclear-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says &#8216;optimistic&#8217; after EU proposal for nuclear deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran says &#8216;optimistic&#8217; after EU proposal for nuclear deal. Iran said Monday it remains \u201coptimistic\u201d about a possible revival of the 2015 nuclear deal after the European Union tabled a proposal aiming for a compromise in the talks stalled since March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain optimistic that the negotiation process will lead us to a logical and reasonable outcome,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said at his weekly news conference.<\/p>\n<p>The comment comes after the EU foreign policy chief and coordinator of the nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, Josep Borrell, last Tuesday submitted a new draft text and urged the different sides of the negotiations to accept it or \u201crisk a dangerous nuclear crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations in Vienna began in April 2021 to restore the deal, but have stalled since March amid differences between Tehran and Washington on several issues.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fm-bilawal-bhutto-to-depart-for-iran-visit-tomorrow.html\">FM Bilawal Bhutto to depart for Iran visit tomorrow<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The two sides negotiated indirectly through the <a href=\"https:\/\/european-union.europa.eu\/index_en\">European Union<\/a> coordinator in a bid to bring the US back into the deal and to lift sanctions on Iran, on the basis that Tehran would return to its nuclear commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar hosted indirect talks end of June between the United States and Iran in a bid to get the Vienna process back on track, but those discussions broke up after two days without any breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Borrell said the draft text includes \u201chard-won compromises by all sides\u201d and \u201caddresses, in precise detail, the sanctions lifting as well as the nuclear steps needed to restore\u201d the 2015 pact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian side has carefully reviewed the text and presented its views,\u201d Kanani said. \u201cIt is possible that in the near future we can reach a conclusion regarding the timetable for the negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will probably see a new round of negotiations,\u201d Kanani added, but noted that \u201cit depends entirely on the willingness of the other side, especially the American side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 agreement gave Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its atomic programme to guarantee that it could not develop a nuclear weapon \u2014 something it has always denied seeking.<\/p>\n<p>But the US unilateral withdrawal from the accord in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump and Washington\u2019s reimposition of biting economic sanctions prompted Iran to begin rolling back on its own commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Washington \u201cmust show that it is ready for a reasonable, logical, and lasting agreement\u201d, Kanani said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran says &#8216;optimistic&#8217; after EU proposal for nuclear deal. Iran said Monday it remains \u201coptimistic\u201d about a possible revival of the 2015 nuclear deal after the European Union tabled a proposal aiming for a compromise in the talks stalled since March. \u201cWe remain optimistic that the negotiation process will lead us to a logical and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":9733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[396,184,97,181],"class_list":["post-9732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-iran","tag-donald-trump","tag-qatar","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}