The White House assured that the negotiations to save the nuclear agreement with Iran are at an “urgent point” and that it will be “impossible” for the United States to return to the agreement unless there is progress soon.
The spokeswoman for the White House, Jen Psaki, spoke this way on Wednesday, a day after talks were resumed in Vienna to prevent the shipwreck of the 2015 nuclear pact, which limited the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. economic.
“Our talks with Iran have reached an urgent point in terms of our mutual return to full implementation of the JCPOA (technical name for the nuclear deal),” Psaki told his daily briefing.
“We have an agreement in sight that can address the main concerns of all parties, but if it is not reached in the coming weeks, Iran’s continued nuclear advances will make it impossible for us to return to the JCPOA,” he added.
Psaki thus responded to a question about Iran’s decision to present on Wednesday a new ballistic missile with a range of 1,450 kilometers, a type of weaponry that is a source of concern for the United States, Europe and some countries in the Middle East.
The Iranian ballistic program was one of the reasons given by former US President Donald Trump to withdraw his country from the 2015 multilateral nuclear agreement in 2018 and reimpose sanctions on Tehran.
A year after Trump abandoned the agreement, Tehran began to violate the limits imposed on its atomic program and to accumulate more uranium than it was allowed and above the maximum purity of 3.67%.
Both Europe and the United States have been insisting for some time that the negotiation is running out, given the speed with which Iran is accelerating its atomic program.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, asked his team in December to prepare possible options in case the negotiations fail, Psaki recalled on Wednesday.
The United States participates indirectly in the negotiations in Vienna, which bring together envoys from the other countries that have signed the pact: Iran, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Russia and China.
Washington wanted to signal goodwill this month by restoring a waiver to US sanctions that allows third parties to participate in security and non-proliferation projects in Iran.
However, the Iranian government has opined that such a gesture “does not deserve any attention” and has insisted that the sanctions must be decisively lifted if the US wants Tehran to return to its commitments under the agreement. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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