Iran sends its final response on the nuclear deal to the United States

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Looks like everyone showed up to the meeting judging from the above pic ( sarcasm folks )

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To overcome sanctions, Iran is in the process of establishing refineries in several countries, including Iraq

 

 

166 Policy 2022/08/05 15:51 Baghdad today -

Translation: Yasmine Al Shafi A member of the Iranian Parliament's Energy Committee, Qassem Saeedi , said today, Friday, that Iran has reached agreements with Syria and Iraq to build refineries and operate them as a shareholder. Saeedi told the Iranian news agency (IRNA), in statements translated by (Baghdad Today), that "one of the main solutions to neutralizing US sanctions is to develop cooperation outside the territories with other countries in the oil industries, such as building and participating in refineries abroad." According to Saeedi, "Iran has also signed agreements with South American countries such as Venezuela to renew its refineries." Pointing out that one of the main issues that worries the West is the entry of Iranian technology into countries located in America's backyard, Saeedi said: "They know very well that one of the opportunities that Iran has been able to create in order to neutralize the effects of the sanctions is in its contributions to the development of oil industries in Other countries such as Venezuela. "Iran has made great progress in terms of technical and engineering knowledge and technology as well as in training of experts; in fact, today we are among the well-known pioneers in the energy sector especially in the construction of refineries," he continued. He pointed out that "the Islamic Republic has expressed its willingness to provide the same services to Lebanon." He concluded: "They are likely to welcome the proposal, and we will certainly cooperate with other Central Asian countries in the near future."

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August 6, 20227:35 AM EDTLast Updated 17 min ago

• Middle East

Iran urges 'realistic' U.S. response to revive nuclear deal

Reuters

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Atom symbol and Iran flag are seen in this illustration, July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

 

Aug 6 (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister called on Saturday for a "realistic response" from the United States to Iranian proposals at indirect talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, state media reported.

"Hossein Amirabdollahian... stressed the need for a realistic U.S. response to Iran's constructive proposals on various issues to make the deal work," state media reported, without providing details on the proposals.

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Vienna negotiations: final text and consultations on it

08.08.2022 - 22:51

 

Baghdad - people  

Talks to revive Iran's faltering nuclear deal with world powers concluded Monday in Vienna, while the parties finalized a text for consultation.  

  

  

  

The European Union has distributed the "final text" to revive the landmark nuclear deal, which guarantees Iran sanctions relief in return for severe restrictions on its nuclear programme.  

Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign policy chief, said on Twitter: "What can be negotiated has been negotiated and is now in a final text. However, behind every technical issue and every paragraph lies a political decision that must be taken in the capitals of the countries involved."  

Russian Ambassador Mikhail Yulianov, who represented Moscow's interests in the talks, stated that the parties "now need to determine whether the draft is acceptable to them. In the absence of any objection, the nuclear agreement will be resumed."  

The US State Department highlighted: "The text proposed by the European Union is the only possible basis for reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran."  

She added: "The United States is ready to reach a quick agreement on the basis of the proposals of the European Union."  

And she continued, "Iran has repeatedly said that it is ready to revive the nuclear deal, so let's see if their actions are consistent with their words."

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Oil stagnates under $100, coinciding with a movement to revive the nuclear agreement

2022.08.09 - 09:14

 

Baghdad - people   

Oil prices recorded a slight decline in trading on Tuesday.  

 

  

  

Brent crude futures fell 18 cents, or 0.19 percent, to $96.47 a barrel by 04:49 GMT, chopping 1.8 percent from the previous session.  

  

US West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell 16 cents, or 0.2%, to $90.60 a barrel, after rising 2% in the previous session.  

  

The European Union late Monday submitted a "final" text to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, pending approvals from Washington and Tehran.  

  

Iran could increase its oil exports by 1 million to 1.5 million barrels per day, or up to 1.5 percent of global supplies, within six months, so the market is likely to witness a sharp drop in oil prices.  

  

The oil market has remained under pressure recently due to global recession fears, as Brent crude prices suffered their biggest weekly decline last week.  

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The European Union presents a “final formula” on the revival of the nuclear agreement

The European Union presented a "final text" at the end of negotiations aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, a European official said Monday.

The source told reporters on condition of anonymity, "We worked for four days, and today the text is before senior representatives. The negotiations have ended and this is the final text. It will not be renegotiated."

Iranian media, quoting an unnamed senior official in the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said that the European coordinator for the Vienna talks, Enrique Mora, "presented new proposals on the remaining issues," adding, "Intensive negotiations took place during the past four days to check on the availability of observations and our country's concerns." . "We shared our positions with the other side during the negotiations, and we made relative progress on some issues," he said.

"The main concern of the nuclear negotiating team is fulfilling the rights, providing the interests of the Iranian people, ensuring the sustainable implementation of the other party's obligations and preventing the recurrence of US illegal behavior," the Iranian official said.

He added that the "final text" announced by the European Union is still under review by it, and "additional opinions" will be provided on it, according to what the French Press Agency reported, quoting the official media.

The official IRNA news agency quoted the official as saying that Tehran told Mora that "our initial response" to the proposed text is, and that "of course, these items need a comprehensive review, and we will convey our additional views and considerations to the coordinator and the other parties."

This came after official media quoted a Foreign Ministry official on Monday that the nuclear negotiations in Vienna "have not yet reached the stage to talk about the final text of the agreement."

"The Iranian negotiating delegation presented constructive views to the other party to advance the negotiations," the official said, adding that "the outcome of the talks depends on the will of the opposing party to take the required political decisions." He continued, "We still believe that if the other party takes the appropriate decision, we will be able to finish the negotiations quickly, but we have not reached this stage yet."

The Iranian official was responding to press statements by the European coordinator, Enrique Mora, on Sunday evening. The Wall Street Journal reported that indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States were "nearing completion, but it was not clear whether Tehran would accept the final agreement," stressing that the text of the agreement could be closed within hours.

Iran insists on closing the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation into the discovery of traces of enriched uranium at secret sites, whose presence it did not announce in the negotiations that preceded the 2015 nuclear deal.

Tehran says the nuclear deal has stripped its nuclear program of any potential military aspect.

In June, the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors passed a resolution criticizing it for failing to explain the effects of uranium, at sites that have become a thorny issue in Iran's relations with the UN agency in the past two years.

In a phone call with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said that Atomic Energy should resolve the remaining issues related to Iran's nuclear activities from a technical point of view and "dissociate itself from unconstructive political issues."

Abdullahian added that his country seeks to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers, and that the success of the indirect talks between Tehran and the United States depends on Washington's flexibility.

Indirect talks between Tehran and Washington resumed in Vienna on Thursday with a meeting between Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani and European Union coordinator Enrique Mora.

Negotiations were suspended on Monday due to the Iranian negotiating team's participation in the Ashura commemoration ceremony.

A former Iranian diplomat told the state-run ISNA news agency that "our situation on how to act in the negotiations is clear." Accepting pledges in return for the other party not accepting the pledges.

On Sunday, Russian negotiator Mikhail Ulyanov said the current talks were "going in the right direction." He added to reporters that the understanding may be "very soon, but there are no guarantees for that, as usual, nothing is agreed upon as long as everything is not agreed upon."

Source: Middle East

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Final text simply states give it up, give it all up or we will feel utterly compelled to squeeze U like a grape.

I know, I know....I was voted in my senior year of high school least likely to become a diplomat. I've not changed.

 

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Including the blood of Qassem Soleimani

Report talks about Iran making 'concessions' in the latest round of nuclear talks

08.09.2022 - 16:57

 

Baghdad - people  

The nuclear negotiations that brought together the Iranians, the Americans and the Europeans ended in Vienna on Monday, in an attempt to reach a deal that would revive the "2015 Iran nuclear deal".  

  

 

Iranian sources close to the decision sources in Tehran said that the end of the negotiations bore a positive impression, and it was supposed to hear the news next week, but now the negotiations have stopped, after the end of the Iranian Shiites' celebration of Ashura.  

The same sources revealed that Iran showed softness in these negotiations, by relinquishing some of the demands it was clinging to previously, while it clung to other demands, and is waiting for the US administration to respond to them.  

The Vienna negotiations ended with the announcement of the European Union text to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, to which Iran initially responded, according to what an Iranian official said to the Islamic Republic of Iran Agency, Monday, August 8, 2022.  

  

Iranian "concessions" to revive the nuclear deal  

Surprisingly, the announcement of the resumption of nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington in Vienna, and this announcement was a surprise and a great achievement in the progress of the negotiations that had been stalled for months.  

In this regard, a high-ranking Iranian diplomat, who is close to the Iranian negotiating team that was in Vienna, says that “attitudes are changing in Tehran. There are many motives that pushed things to change. After internal discussions between Iranian leaders, it was agreed to resume negotiations, And softening a few Iranian demands, to show Tehran’s goodwill towards recovering the nuclear agreement.”  

According to the same source, it was the high command in Tehran who encouraged the Iranian Foreign Ministry to resume indirect nuclear negotiations with America at the earliest opportunity. "The negative economic impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the Iranian economy cannot be denied. Iranian leaders do not want to disturb the lives of the people; Therefore, resuming the nuclear negotiations was a good solution," the spokesman says.  

Although the Iranian diplomat stressed Tehran's great desire to resume nuclear negotiations in Vienna, in the hope of reaching a deal to revive the 2015 Iranian nuclear agreement, he did not hide his concern that these attempts would sabotage at any moment.  

The spokesman added that "there is a seriousness from the Iranian side to reach a deal as soon as possible, and with a compromise solution that satisfies all parties, but at the same time, there are still concerns about the United States sabotaging Iranian efforts."  

  

Iran's new demands  

On July 26, 2022, Josep Borrell, the European Union's foreign policy coordinator, overseeing the transfer of negotiations between America and Iran in Vienna, announced in an article that he had prepared a new draft for a deal to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or what is known as the nuclear agreement. Iran for 2015.  

Details of this draft remain confidential to this day, but an Iranian parliamentarian in the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said that "the new draft announced by Borrell is no different from the draft of March, and it was prepared for the benefit of the American side."  

A few days after the Spanish diplomat Josep Borrell announced his draft, he reiterated that it was on the negotiating table in Vienna and suitable for all parties, and that time was running out for the insistence on obtaining concessions at any cost from both sides.  

He also referred to the economic and financial gains that Tehran could obtain if it agreed to this draft and to reach a solution to revive the nuclear agreement as soon as possible.  

But in the Iranian capital, Tehran, there were other opinions. "The draft prepared by Borrell does not address Iranian demands to a great extent, so I expect more failures in Vienna," says the Iranian parliamentarian in the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee.  

As for Iranian demands, they have been eased for the time being, according to a senior Iranian official, familiar with the nuclear negotiations in Vienna: “Currently, Iranian demands are slightly different from the previous time, for example, Tehran does not insist on lifting all sanctions, and it will be satisfied with lifting the associated sanctions. of the nuclear programme.  

Previously, Iran insisted that the Joe Biden administration lift all sanctions imposed on Tehran, whether nuclear (related to the nuclear file), or non-nuclear (related to terrorism and human rights issues), but in return the US administration refused to lift the political sanctions imposed by the Donald administration Trump precedent, justifying it as irrelevant to the 2015 nuclear deal.  

The Iranian official says: "The Iranian negotiating team in Vienna aims to have a gradual lifting of the nuclear sanctions, and to postpone the discussion of lifting the non-nuclear sanctions for a later time, and this is in order to facilitate the outstanding issues and a desire to reach a quick solution."  

  

Revolutionary Guards and revenge for Soleimani  

Since May 2022, the issue of removing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the lists of foreign terrorist organizations of the United States has been an obstacle to reaching a deal to revive the nuclear agreement between Washington and Tehran.  

Iran insisted on removing the Revolutionary Guards from the lists of terrorist organizations among its demands to return to compliance with the provisions of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but the Joe Biden administration refused to implement the Iranian demand, due to the difficulty of promoting it politically in Congress.  

According to the Iranian sources, things have changed a little, saying: "Clearly and frankly, the requirement to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from the lists of American terrorist organizations has been waived (temporarily), and this matter was done with the approval and blessing of the Revolutionary Guard leaders themselves."  

In Tehran, a number of conservative media outlets affiliated with hardline currents within the fundamentalist camp criticized the idea of possibly waiving the Iranian condition to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations of the United States.  

 A conservative Iranian journalist says: “We have not received confirmation from any official body that this condition will be waived, but if the Iranian negotiating team does happen and the Iranian negotiating team waives removing the Revolutionary Guards from the terrorist lists, this would be a huge mistake for the administration of Ibrahim Raisi. We do not want to revive the nuclear agreement. At the expense of our forces that protect us."  

For his part, a source close to the Iranian high leadership, who is familiar with the details of the nuclear negotiations in Iran, said that "if a solution is found to revive the nuclear agreement, the issue of promoting the non-removal of the Revolutionary Guards from the list of terrorist organizations will be a daunting task for the administration of Ibrahim Raisi, at home." .  

But at the same time, the same source confirmed that the Iranian condition to remove the Revolutionary Guards from the list of foreign terrorist organizations of the United States, will not be waived forever, saying: "The Iranian negotiating team decided to postpone this issue when there is an opportunity to negotiate directly between Tehran and Washington, But it will never be given up."  

As for the issue of Iranian retaliation for the US assassination of the Quds Force commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Qassem Soleimani in January 2020, near Baghdad International Airport, which has been the subject of controversy between Washington and Tehran in recent months, it is currently ignored by the Both sides accepted, according to Iranian sources.  

An Iranian official close to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which manages the nuclear negotiations file alongside the Iranian Foreign Ministry, says: "It seems that both parties ignored the issue of Soleimani's killing, and in Tehran the issue of revenge against Soleimani is a critical and sensitive issue, so the Iranian administration decided not to involve it in Now is the time for negotiations, but this also does not mean giving up revenge and retaliation for Soleimani."  

  

Iran and economic guarantees  

In previous rounds of nuclear negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States, in Vienna, Tehran demanded that Washington obtain political guarantees that the US administration would not seek to withdraw from the nuclear agreement and sabotage it again, but the Joe Biden administration rejected this demand, as it is almost impossible to achieve. It provides no guarantee for Iran in the event of a change of administration after 2024.  

Tehran insisted on its aforementioned demand; What was an obstacle to completing the negotiations in the past months, but in the current round, which began on Thursday, August 5, 2022, the features of this requirement have been slightly changed.  

An Iranian diplomat says: “In this round, Iran presented a demand for economic guarantees instead of political ones. In other words, it wants to obtain a guarantee from Washington that in the event of a return to full compliance with the nuclear agreement, it will obtain economic benefits through the easing of sanctions, which was an impasse in front of the Foreign investment in Iran since the deal was signed in 2015.  

It is worth noting here, that even after the signing of the Iranian nuclear agreement in 2015 and its entry into force in January 2016, Tehran did not fully enjoy the economic benefits of the nuclear deal, due to the presence of some secondary economic sanctions that the United States may impose on Iran in the pre-2015 years .  

In this regard, a foreign policy analyst who is close to decision-making circles in Tehran says, "Tehran has realized that guarantees are better than seeking political guarantees that the United States will not leave the agreement again, and that the Iranian motive this time behind the resumption of negotiations in Vienna is an economic one. Purely, so it was smart to focus on economic guarantees.”  

"In fact, the requirement for economic guarantees and the issue of lifting sanctions and secondary sanctions is a rather complicated technical issue, but I have no doubt that Washington will resolve this impasse if it has a real desire to reach a deal to revive the nuclear agreement," the analyst said.  

  

The IAEA investigation.. Vienna obstacle  

The Iranian diplomat says: "The Iranian and American demands, the current draft, and the techniques related to lifting sanctions, are all matters that seem easy to reach a solution, especially in this round, and after the flexibility shown by the Iranian negotiating team currently in Vienna, but the biggest obstacle that is from It is possible that at any moment these efforts could be overthrown, and it is a matter of the IAEA's investigation."  

Last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it had discovered traces of uranium at three old, but undeclared Iranian nuclear sites, and demanded that Tehran provide convincing answers to such traces. At the end of last year, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement that they would provide the three answers requested of them.  

But the International Atomic Energy Agency, returned in June 2022, to announce that the answers provided by the Islamic Republic regarding the effects of uranium in three undeclared sites were unconvincing and insufficient, at the same time Tehran refrained from providing more clear answers, so a decision was issued Negative against Iran by the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency.  

Iran rejected these criticisms from the International Atomic Energy Agency, resorted to escalation, and disconnected about 27 surveillance cameras that had been set up by the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor Iran's nuclear activities, and this was done with Iran's agreement to implement the Additional Protocol to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Weapons nuclear deal in addition to the 2015 nuclear deal.  

So far, Tehran is still disabling the International Atomic Energy Agency's surveillance cameras, and at the same time, the latter is still calling on Iran to allow it to investigate the presence of uranium traces at undisclosed locations.  

This crisis is considered a negative development between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is supposed to issue a more violent decision than before towards Iran at the meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which will be held in the second week of next September.  

A source close to the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said: "It is unlikely that the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization will provide new answers regarding the IAEA investigation, so this issue has now been negotiated in the Vienna negotiations."  

The source did not disclose the reason for Iran's inability to provide convincing answers to the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding the presence of traces of uranium in three undeclared nuclear sites.  

In the same context, the high-ranking Iranian diplomat says that "the issue of the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation is the most important point in the current round of the Vienna negotiations, and the most difficult one as well, but it cannot be waived in any way."  

According to the same source, Tehran, in the round of nuclear negotiations in Vienna, asked the United States to end the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation into the discovery of traces of uranium, and among the Iranian demands to return to full compliance with the terms of the nuclear agreement.  

But what if a compromise is not reached in this matter? The source close to the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization answers this question, saying: “This is a very dangerous matter, it means the collapse of negotiations forever, Tehran’s continued disconnection of surveillance cameras, and cutting off the Internet connection from The rest of the monitoring bodies, and it is possible that things will develop because of Iran's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty."  

In light of these concerns, the Iranian foreign policy analyst, who is close to the decision-making circles in Tehran, says that “the issue of ending the investigation of the International Atomic Energy Agency is a very important issue and a major obstacle to reviving the nuclear agreement, according to my sources, Iran cannot give up this demand.” Also, what happened in the current round in Vienna shows that Washington and the other European parties to the nuclear agreement are finding it difficult to achieve this requirement.  

The previous source believes that in the event that Washington does not implement the aforementioned Iranian demand, "everyone should forget about the nuclear agreement forever, and prepare ourselves for a greater conflict between Washington and Tehran."  

  

  

  

Source: "Araby Post"  

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The Iranian Supreme Leader's newspaper attacks Western proposals on nuclear: catastrophic, aiming for surrender

08.10.2022 - 13:55

 

Nass - Baghdad 
The managing editor of "Kayhan" newspaper, Hussain Shariatmadari, described the new Western proposals on reviving the nuclear agreement as "disastrous", stressing that accepting them is a kind of submission and surrender, not consensus.  

 

  

  

Shariatmadari stated in an article (August 10, 2022) followed by "NAS" that the nuclear agreement did not have any results in favor of Iran, and that the nuclear negotiations did not reach results that guarantee Tehran's interests.  

  

The writer, who is close to the Supreme Leader Khamenei, accused the reformists and all those who demand the revival of the nuclear agreement inside Iran of "sellers of the homeland."  

  

Shariatmadari attacked the International Atomic Energy Agency, and considered the agency's inspectors to be "spies" for America and Israel, and stressed the need not to allow them access to Iran's military and nuclear sites.  

  

On the other hand, political analyst, Hasan Beheshtipur, told the newspaper, "Jahan Sanat" that the current battle over the nuclear agreement is a battle to blame the failure on the other side, and not the goal is to revive the nuclear agreement. European Novel.  

  

In turn, Ali Bekdeli said in his interview with the newspaper that the nuclear negotiations have actually ended, but none of the parties to the negotiations wants to announce the end of these negotiations or that they reached a dead end and failed, because the consequences of that will befall the party that announces it, and is recorded in history as the country that Withdraw from the negotiations and spoil them.  

 

 

 

 

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An official in the Iranian presidency comments on Western leaks about the text of the nuclear agreement

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The Assistant for Political Affairs in the Iranian Presidential Office, Mohammad Jamshidi, commented on the recent Western media leaks on issues related to the safeguards system in the nuclear deal.

 

Muhammad Jamshidi indicated that he “does not want to comment on the content or authenticity of the text published in the media on issues related to the safeguards system in the Atomic Energy Agency,” noting that “these coordinated media leaks show which party is suffering from pressure and needs an immediate agreement, And the study of the matter is continuing.”

And this came after some media outlets circulated news about issues related to the safeguards system and the proposed text of the agreement between Iran and international powers on the nuclear deal. The Wall Street Journal said that it had “viewed the text and that the European proposal included making major concessions to Iran aimed at ending an investigation into the nuclear deal.” The Atomic Energy Agency.

The newspaper said that “the proposal submitted by the European Union indicates that Iran is expected to answer the International Atomic Energy Agency’s questions “with a view to clarifying them,” and that if Tehran cooperates, the other parties in the talks will urge the agency to close the investigation.

Meanwhile, the Iranian news agency IRNA quoted an Iranian diplomat as saying that "the Islamic Republic is reviewing the European proposals received to ensure that its demands are met, and that Europe's proposals can be accepted if they provide Iran with reassurance on various issues, including political allegations related to the issues of guarantees and the lifting of all kinds of embargoes." and ensuring that the agreement is not breached.

Source: "Fares"

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Iran Dabbles In Crypto For Cross-Border Trade, In Effort To Bypass Sanctions

Dominic Dudley

 

Aug 10, 2022,04:33am EDT

Crypto-currency coins including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and Cardano,

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Iran has begun using crypto-currencies to settle cross-border trade deals, as the country continues to look for ways to avoid using the U.S. dollar and the international banking system.

 

In a tweet on August 9, the head of the Iran Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO) Ali Reza Peymanpak said the first official import order using crypto-currencies had been placed “this week”.

 

 

Peymanpak, who is also a deputy minister of industry, mine and trade, did not say what goods or services were being traded, or who the trade had been with, but said the transaction had been worth $10 million.

 

He went on to say that the use of crypto-currencies and smart contracts would become “widespread in foreign trade” with some countries in the near future.

 

It follows the news last month that Iran and Russia had taken steps to reduce the use of the dollar in their bilateral trade, by launching a settlement system using their own currencies.

In 2019, the Central Bank of Iran placed a ban on trading crypto-currencies inside Iran. The country’s electricity network has at times come under severe pressure due to the large amount of ‘mining’ of crypto-currencies in the country, which led to widespread blackouts. However, the government does allow bitcoin and other crypto-currencies to be used for international trading, as a way of circumventing U.S. sanctions.

In January, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported that a deal had been struck between the ITPO and the country’s central bank to allow crypto-currencies to be used in cross-border trade, saying at the time that the system would be up and running “within the next two weeks”.

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Iran cheerfully admits using cryptocurrency to pay for imports

Trade minister says to expect more of this sanctions-busting stuff starting in September

Simon Sharwood, APAC EditorWed 10 Aug 2022 // 03:43 UTC

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Iran has announced it used cryptocurrency to pay for imports, raising the prospect that the nation is using digital assets to evade sanctions.

Trade minister Alireza Peyman Pak revealed the transaction with the tweet below, which translates as "This week, the first official import order was successfully placed with cryptocurrency worth ten million dollars. By the end of September, the use of cryptocurrencies and smart contracts will be widespread in foreign trade with target countries."

It is unclear what Peman Pak referred to with his mention of widespread use of crypto for foreign trade, and the identity of the foreign countries he mentioned is also obscure.

But the intent of the announcement appears clear: Iran will use cryptocurrency to settle cross-border trades.

That's very significant because Iran is subject to extensive sanctions aimed at preventing its ability to acquire nuclear weapons and reduce its ability to sponsor terrorism. Sanctions prevent the sale of many commodities and technologies to Iran, and financial institutions aren't allowed to deal with their Iranian counterparts, who are mostly shunned around the world.

As explained in this advisory [PDF] issued by the US Treasury, Iran has developed numerous practices to evade sanctions, including payment offsetting schemes that let it sell oil in contravention of sanctions. Proceeds of such sales are alleged to have been funnelled to terrorist groups.

While cryptocurrency's anonymity has been largely disproved, trades in digital assets aren't regulated so sanctions enforcement will be more complex if Iran and its trading partners use crypto instead of fiat currencies.

Which perhaps adds more weight to the argument that cryptocurrency has few proven uses beyond speculative trading, making the ransomware industry possible, and helping authoritarian states like Iran and North Korea to acquire materiel for weapons.

Peyman Pak's mention of "widespread" cross-border crypto deals, facilitated by automated smart contracts, therefore represents a challenge to those who monitor and enforce sanctions – and something new to worry about for the rest of us. ®

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US report calls on Biden not to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran: Tehran still threatens Washington

 

 2022-08-13 16:57

 

Shafaq News/ The US "Fox News" channel called on President Joe Biden to refrain from concluding a nuclear deal with Iran after revealing a plot to assassinate former National Security Adviser John Bolton, confirming that Iran still represents a threat to the United States.

"Fox News" indicated in a report translated by Shafak News Agency today, Saturday, that "the thwarted Iranian plot is, according to US officials, an Iranian attempt to respond to the assassination of the Iranian Quds Force commander, General Qassem Soleimani, in Baghdad in January of the year 2020."

After the US report referred to General Soleimani’s role in organizing attacks against US forces in Iraq and Syria, through groups affiliated with Iran, it continued that despite Bolton’s resignation from the administration of President Donald Trump before the US drone strike that killed Soleimani, the former National Security Adviser played A major role in US efforts to counter Iranian influence, including Washington's designation of the Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organization in 2019.

The report pointed out that "Bolton is not the former US official whose assassination attempt is being planned by Iran, referring in this context to former Secretary of State Mark Pompeo and Iranian policy coordinator in the State Department Brian Hook, who were imposed strict security protection due to Iranian threats."

In addition, the report indicated that an attempt to assassinate a Saudi ambassador to Washington was thwarted in 2011 by bombing a restaurant, and an American of Iranian origin was arrested on charges of involvement in the plot and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Despite this, "Fox News" said, "The Iranian regime got away with it," adding that the Barack Obama administration at the time, by treating Iranian "state terrorism" as a law enforcement issue, not as a matter of American national security, left the regime. The Iranian is escaping from facing the predicament and I encouraged him to his impunity.

For this reason, the US report called on the Biden administration not to repeat the same mistake of sending a dangerous message of weakness to a regime he described as "strongly dependent on terrorism in order to maintain itself in power since 1979."

The report considered that the plot to assassinate Bolton is "another reminder that Iran's hard-line rulers pose mortal threats to the United States and cannot be trusted."

The report stated that the Biden administration had rejected the Trump administration's "maximum pressure" policy with Iran, and was "continuing with its wasted efforts to revive the flawed and increasingly meaningless nuclear agreement."

The report concluded by saying that ignoring Iranian terrorism in an attempt "to placate Tehran and sign another dangerous nuclear agreement, would be a grave mistake that would undermine US national security for the coming years."

Last Wednesday, the US Department of Justice revealed charges against a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Shahram Barsafi, of plotting to assassinate Bolton, through his attempt to pay 300,000 dollars to people residing in the United States, in order to assassinate the former US official.

According to the information, Bersafi is still at large outside the United States. Also, the listed accusations were based on information provided by a "secret human source" that did not specify his identity or location.

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Iran demands compensation if any US president withdraws from the nuclear deal

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2022-08-16 | 09:47

 

 

 

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CNN confirmed today, Tuesday, that no real solution has been reached regarding reviving the nuclear agreement with Iran.

CNN quoted a diplomatic source as saying that "Iran is demanding compensation if any US president withdraws from the agreement."

The diplomatic source added that "the guarantees demanded by Iran constitute a major obstacle to reviving the nuclear agreement, which was concluded in 2015."

 

 

The Russian delegate to the Vienna talks had indicated that "Iran confirmed its willingness to conclude an agreement, provided that 3 demands are accepted."

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They have demands ????

🤣 The compensation statement is a hoot!! Ain't these folks a trip !?!?

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Washington is studying the Iranian response to the European proposal... and there are no "details" now

 

Al Hurra - Washington

August 16, 2022

 

 

The European Union proposed to the main parties a formula for a "final" settlement

The US State Department spokesman, Ned Price, confirmed, on Tuesday, that the US administration is working to study the Iranian response to the European proposal to return to the nuclear agreement. 

"We are studying Iran's response to the European Union and will not provide details on it at this time," Price said in a press briefing. 

"If the Iranians showed some seriousness, we would have reached tangible results today," Price said. 

He stressed that the sanctions imposed on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are outside the nuclear agreement and are not related to it. 

The European Union, coordinator of negotiations to revive the agreement, from which the United States unilaterally withdrew four years ago, submitted last week a "final" settlement proposal, calling on Tehran and Washington, who are negotiating indirectly, to respond to it, hoping to culminate in talks that began a year and a half ago.

And the official IRNA news agency reported, at dawn on Tuesday, that Tehran had submitted its "written response to the text proposed by the European Union," saying that "an agreement will be reached if the American response is realistic and flexible."

Both the European Union and the United States emphasized that the response was subject to evaluation.

"We received Iran's response yesterday night," a spokeswoman for the European Union's foreign minister, Josep Borrell, was quoted by AFP as saying. "We are studying it and consulting with other parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and the United States on the way forward."

On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian confirmed that his country would present its "final proposals" on reviving the agreement, from which the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2018.

The 2015 agreement between Tehran and six major international powers, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, allowed the lifting of sanctions on Iran in return for reducing its nuclear activities and ensuring the peace of its program. However, the United States unilaterally withdrew from it during the era of its former president, Donald Trump, re-imposing sanctions on Iran, which responded by beginning to gradually retreat from most of its commitments.

Iran and the powers still affiliated with the agreement (France, Britain, Germany, Russia, and China) began discussions to revive it in April 2021, and were suspended for the first time in June of the same year. After its resumption in November, it was suspended again since mid-March, with points of disagreement remaining between Washington and Tehran, despite significant progress being made towards achieving the understanding.

The two parties, in coordination with the European Union, held indirect talks for two days in Doha in late June, which did not lead to any significant progress. On August 4, the talks resumed in Vienna with the indirect participation of the United States.

After four days of negotiations, the European Union confirmed that it had presented the two main parties with a "final" settlement formula.

"It's a decision moment: yes or no," a spokesman for the continental bloc said at the time. "We expect all participants to make that decision very quickly."

After the Iranian response was announced, the ISNA news agency said that Tehran was awaiting an answer from the "other side" within "two days".

However, a spokeswoman for Borrell denied there was a specific timetable for a response.

"At this stage, everyone is studying the (Iranian) response and this is not the time to speculate about the timing or so on... All participants should see it and that's what I can say at this stage," she said.

She stressed that Borrell periodically communicates with the concerned parties, refusing to disclose any content of the deliberations.

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Washington reveals a new development regarding the nuclear agreement with Tehran

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2022-08-16 | 16:34

 

 

 

 

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The US State Department announced the settlement of basic issues in general within the framework of returning to the nuclear agreement with Iran.

"The last 16 months ... the process has continued, which we believe has been longer than necessary," State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a press conference on Tuesday.

He continued, "We discussed broad topics, on the basis of which two main issues are based: What are the steps that Iran should take to return to compliance with the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program ... and what are the steps that the United States should be prepared for in terms of mitigating Penalties".

 

 

He added, "These broad issues were discussed... and we believe that they were generally settled."

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EU, US say studying Iran response to 'final' nuclear text

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi pictured in Tehran on July 19, 2022 - ATTA KENARE

by Sammy Ketz

• August 16, 2022 — Tehran (AFP)

The European Union and United States said Tuesday they were studying Iran's response to a "final" draft agreement on reviving a 2015 nuclear accord with major powers the EU presented at talks in Vienna.

The US had already said Monday that it was informing EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell of its response to the text he submitted on August 8.

The possibility of a deal which might lead to the lifting of US sanctions on Iran's oil output of 2.5 million barrels per day has already helped trigger a fall in prices on world markets, with US oil futures dropping nearly three percent to finish below $90 a barrel.

 

 

A spokesperson for Borrell -- who coordinated talks to bring Iran and the United States back into the deal -- said the Iranian response was received late Monday and the EU was consulting with the United States and the other parties "on the way ahead".

"Everybody is studying the response and this is not the time for the moment to speculate on timing," Borrell's spokesperson Nabila Massrali later told a press briefing.

A spokesperson for the US State Department said: "We have received Iran's comments through the EU and are studying them. We are sharing our views with the EU."

Iran's official IRNA news agency reported earlier Tuesday that "an agreement will be concluded if the United States reacts with realism and flexibility" to Iran's response.

Iran's ISNA news agency cited an "informed source" as saying that Tehran "expects to receive the response of the other side in the next two days".

IRNA had said Friday that Iran might accept the "final" text drawn up by the European Union to save the deal, which aimed to curb Iran's nuclear programme in return for sanctions relief.

The deal has been moribund since the 2018 withdrawal of the United States under then president Donald Trump whose administration reimposed crippling sanctions.

An unidentified Iranian diplomat said, according to IRNA, that "the European Union's proposals are acceptable provided that they provide assurances to Iran on various points, related to sanctions and safeguards" as well as pending issues with the International Atomic Energy Agency.

- Three issues -

IRNA said the remaining differences centred on three issues.

"The United States has expressed flexibility on two of them verbally but that needs to be incorporated into the text," the news agency said without elaborating.

"The third issue has to do with a guarantee that the deal will be lasting, and that depends on realism from the United States to reassure Iran."

None of the parties have spelt out in detail the points of contention that are still blocking a deal.

Iran's demand for an end to US blacklisting of its ideological army, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as a "terrorist organisation" has been dropped from the discussions and will instead be handled after the deal, a senior EU official said earlier this month.

The official said progress had also been made on Tehran's call for guarantees that there will be no repeat of Washington reneging on the deal as it did under Trump in 2018.

Tehran and Washington still have to agree on "issues related to sanctions lifting and a couple of nuclear questions that did not exist in March as the Iranians advanced their programme", the EU official said.

Iran also wants the UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, to end its long-running investigation into traces of enriched uranium found at sites not declared as having hosted nuclear activities.

Britain, China, France, Germany, Iran and Russia, as well as the United States indirectly, resumed talks on the nuclear accord earlier in August after a months-long hiatus.

The EU-coordinated negotiations to revive the deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, began in April 2021 before coming to a standstill in March.

The EU said last Tuesday it expected Tehran and Washington to "very quickly" respond to the "final" text aimed at salvaging the deal.

Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that, after the lengthy negotiations, "what counts for us is verification" that sanctions are lifted in practice.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price said it was up to Iran to make a final deal, rejecting reported demands that are outside the scope of the negotiations.

"We do believe that what could be negotiated has been negotiated, and we're prepared to affect a mutual return to compliance with the JCPOA," said Price.

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Newspaper: Nuclear deal negotiations stumbled due to Tehran's insistence on guarantees of its continuation

2022.08.18 - 10:45

 

  

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The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian demands for guarantees from the United States once again impeded efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.  

 

  

On Monday, the American newspaper reported that Tehran sent a response to the European Union, which chairs the nuclear talks in Vienna, noting that the response did not include acceptance or rejection of the draft text of the European Union agreement, but it raised several issues that Iran wants to include in the agreement.  

  

She explained that Iran re-requested US guarantees that no future US president would withdraw from the deal, as happened with former President Donald Trump in 2018, considering that these developments leave "Washington and European capitals unsure of the possibility of reaching an agreement."  

  

Another key aspect of Iran's response to the European proposal, the Iranian negotiating team said, is the assertion that Western companies investing in Iran will be protected if the United States withdraws from the agreement again, as it did under Trump.   

  

Iran also introduced mechanisms in the deal that would allow Tehran to rapidly increase its nuclear activities if Washington withdraws from the deal.  

  

A European official stated that Tehran and Washington need to agree on the draft text or not, rejecting the idea of resuming talks between the two parties.   

  

Two Western officials said they did not expect any announcement of an imminent deal, although an agreement is still possible in the coming days.  

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US report: Biden administration faces "intractable" obstacles to revive the nuclear agreement

08.19.2022 - 12:59

 

  

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A US report said on Friday that the administration of President Joe Biden is now facing potentially intractable obstacles to revive the nuclear deal with Iran after recent developments.  

  

  

  

The report, published by the American “Associated Press” agency, stated that these developments “included the attack last week on the writer Salman Rushdie.”  

  

It also included "the indictment of an Iranian citizen for plotting to kill former National Security Adviser John Bolton, at a time when efforts to conclude an agreement with Iran reached a critical stage."  

  

The agency added, “The decision may be very soon... But as the United States and Europe weigh Iran’s latest response to the European Union proposal described as the final Western offer, the American administration faces new and potentially intractable domestic political obstacles to reaching a permanent agreement with the United States.” Iran.”  

  

She noted that "critics of the agreement in Congress, who have long pledged to work to prevent a deal, have recently escalated their opposition to negotiations with a country whose leadership refused to cancel the death threats against Rushdie or Bolton."  

  

She explained that "Tehran also vowed to avenge Washington's assassination of Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020, by killing former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and envoy to Iran Brian Hook, both of whom are still under security protection paid by taxpayers 24/7."  

  

Although these threats are not covered by the deal, which relates only to Iran's nuclear program, it "confirms the arguments of opponents of the agreement that Tehran cannot be trusted with billions of dollars flowing to it after sanctions relief," according to the report.  

  

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Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian expert at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington, was quoted as saying, “This is a more difficult deal to pass than the 2015 deal, as there are no illusions this time that it will moderate Iranian behavior or lead to greater cooperation between the United States and Iran for peace.” .  

  

“The Iranian government will get tens of billions of sanctions relief, and the organizing principle of the regime in Tehran will remain opposition to the United States and violence against its critics, both at home and abroad,” Sadjadpour added.  

  

Iran has denied any connection to Rushdie's attacker, a US citizen who was convicted of the attempted murder and pleaded not guilty to the stabbing incident on the 12th of this month in New York.  

  

But the official Iranian media has celebrated Iran's longstanding hatred of Rushdie since the publication of his book "The Satanic Verses" in 1988.  

  

Media linked to the Iranian leadership praised the attacker for following the 1989 decree, or fatwa calling for Rushdie's death, signed by then-Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.  

  

“I think it is a delusion to think that a regime that is about to enter into a significant arms control agreement with it can be relied upon to comply with its obligations or even be serious about negotiations when it plans to assassinate government officials,” Bolton said on Wednesday.  

  

  

In turn, Rich Goldberg, a former National Security Council employee for the administration of former President Donald Trump and an opponent of the nuclear deal, said that “easing terrorism sanctions amid ongoing terrorist plots on American soil is somewhere between fantasy and madness.”  

  

The Associated Press continued: “While administration officials acknowledge the seriousness of the plots, they assert that they have nothing to do with the nuclear issue and do nothing to alter their firm belief that Iran’s possession of a nuclear weapon would be more dangerous and less restrictive than an Iran without one.”  

  

And US State Department spokesman Ned Price said this week that "the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action revolves around the single central challenge we face with Iran, which is the nuclear weapon."  

  

"There is a suspicion that a nuclear-armed Iran would feel more impunity and would pose a greater threat to countries in the region and perhaps beyond," Price added.  

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An expert predicts the future of oil prices if a nuclear agreement is concluded between Iran and Washington

2022.08.20 - 14:47

 

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On Saturday, Professor of Economics at the University of Basra, Nabil Al-Marsoumi, detailed the impact of the nuclear agreement on global oil prices.  

  

Al-Marsoumi said in a blog post, followed by "Nass" (August 20, 2022), "Before the US sanctions, Iran was producing 3.867 million barrels per day and exported 2.125 million barrels per day, but the sanctions led to a decline in Iranian oil production to about 2.1 million barrels per day and its exports declined. Oil fell to less than 500,000 barrels, then rose this year to 870,000 barrels per day, after production rose to 2.564 million barrels per day.  

  

He added, "After Iranian oil was priced at a discount of about $10 a barrel on Brent crude futures contracts, making it on par with Urals shipments that arrived in China last August, compared to a discount of between $4 and $5 before the Russian war." - Ukrainian.  

  

He continued, "A new nuclear agreement between Tehran and Washington could contribute to the flow of about 500,000 to 1 million barrels per day of Iranian crude to international markets, which is enough to reduce prices in the short term, driven by speculation."  

  

He said, "Iran will benefit from its oil stocks in floating ships and in land tanks in ports, which amount to 60 million barrels, to increase its oil exports within a few months. Offering an additional million barrels per day of Iranian crude will put pressure on record world oil prices."  

  

He pointed out that, "However, investment bank Goldman Sachs said last month that the global oil market is able to absorb the additional supply relatively quickly, and that Iran's restoration of its previous production before the imposition of sanctions may take two years due to the low level of investment over the years in mature oil fields."  

  

And he indicated that "production has been severely reduced in light of the sanctions, and accordingly the nuclear agreement will lead to an increase in Iranian oil supplies and a decline in prices by a few dollars per barrel, and oil may enter a new price range between 80-90 dollars, but it is unlikely that oil prices will collapse because of the great demand for oil." Oil and sanctions imposed on Russian oil, as well as the current scarcity of investments in the global oil industry.  

  

  

 

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Export 2.5 million barrels and release billions of dollars. Learn about the details of the nuclear agreement with Iran

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CNN , Friday, quoted a senior US administration official as saying that the deal with Iran is closer than it was two weeks ago, noting that Tehran has abandoned one of the "red lines", which is its demand to remove the Iranian Revolutionary Guard from Terror lists .

While all eyes are on Washington to know its final position on the Iranian response to the European proposal to revive the nuclear agreement, the American official spoke to CNN about the proximity of the potential agreement, but he also said that there are still some points of contention .

The official stated that Iran was seeking compensation if the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal again .

With regard to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the same source said that the White House was firm during the negotiations that it would not remove the guard from the lists of terrorism .

He added that Iran had dropped - in its response to the European proposal - its demand to remove the Revolutionary Guards from those lists .

European proposal details

Al-Jazeera quoted informed sources as saying that the European proposal to revive the nuclear agreement with Iran includes 4 phases, and two periods of time, each lasting 60 days .

The sources said that the first day after the signing of the agreement will witness the lifting of sanctions on 17 banks and 150 economic institutions, provided that Iran will begin from the first day of implementing the agreement to gradually retract its nuclear steps .

The sources explained to Al Jazeera that the implementation of the agreement will coincide with the release of $7 billion of Iran's frozen funds in South Korea .

The proposed agreement also includes Tehran's export of 2.5 million barrels of oil per day, 120 days after the signing .

During the 120-day period, Iran will export 50 million barrels as part of the verification mechanism

The proposal also stipulates that Washington pay a fine in the event of its withdrawal from the nuclear agreement again

The European Union - coordinator of negotiations to revive the agreement, from which the United States unilaterally withdrew 4 years ago - presented last week a "final" settlement proposal, calling on Tehran and Washington, who are negotiating indirectly, to respond to it, hoping to culminate in talks that began a year and a half ago.

 

 

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Tehran: Soleimani's assassination has nothing to do with nuclear negotiations..we will never forget

2022.08.22 - 12:52

 

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Today, Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry revealed the developments of the movement within the framework of the nuclear agreement with Washington, while indicating that the issue of Soleimani's assassination has nothing to do with the negotiations.  

  

  

  

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani responded during a press conference carried by "IRNA" agency, followed by "Nass" (August 22, 2022), to the question, "The United States stipulated that Iran abandon revenge for Soleimani's blood in order to activate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action," saying: "The position of the Islamic Republic on Soleimani's assassination is clear, and Iran, the government and people, will never forget the cowardly assassination of Soleimani."  

  

He added that "this issue will not be reconcilable and Iran will use all its capabilities to try the killers of Soleimani and his companions in the International Court of Justice, and this issue has nothing to do with the nuclear negotiations."  

  

He said, "The remaining issues in the negotiations are few, but they are important and must be agreed upon, stressing that we adhere to our principles and will not retreat from our legal rights regarding reviving the nuclear agreement, as long as we welcome the path of negotiations and affirm our desire to revive the agreement without deviating from our red lines."  

  

He added, "We want an agreement that satisfies the Iranian people and preserves its supreme interests, saying: If Tehran needs to reach an agreement, the Europeans and the United States need it more."  

  

The Foreign Ministry spokesman added: "We have not received the American response so far, and our response to the European proposal was timely and seriously, considering that it is possible to move to the next stage of negotiations if Washington acts responsibly and takes its decision."  

  

  

On a separate level, Kanaani said that the ongoing negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore official relations between the two countries contribute to securing the interests of both sides.  

  

He added that there are differences in viewpoints and complex issues, but good steps have been taken forward, and the progress of the negotiations was positive.  

  

Kanaani expressed his belief that the resumption of relations will not happen quickly, and said, "The political will is there, and we have seen the Saudi side take opposite steps, and we should be optimistic about taking a step forward in the course of diplomatic contacts and dialogues."  

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In detail.. the terms of the new nuclear agreement between Washington and Tehran

 

 2022-08-23 14:49

 

 

Shafaq News / The American "Axios" website revealed, on Tuesday, the details of the new nuclear agreement between the United States and Iran, while noting that the agreement will obligate Tehran to a specific percentage of uranium enrichment.

The website, quoting a US official, said that "the new agreement with Iran will not allow it to enrich uranium above 3.67 percent, and will prevent Iran from storing more than 300 kg of enriched uranium, and will impose restrictions on Iran's nuclear program until 2031." .

According to the new agreement, according to the US official, Iran's advanced centrifuges will be "removed and stored under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Global expectations have recently increased about the possibility of a new agreement between Tehran and Washington, which will return the latter to the agreement it exited in 2018.

In the context, a senior US official told Reuters that Iran has abandoned some of the basic conditions for reviving the nuclear agreement, which aims to "restrict Tehran's nuclear program," while the European Union's High Commissioner for Foreign and Security Policy Josep Borrell announced the approval of most of the parties on the European proposal to revive the nuclear deal. nuclear deal.

After intermittent and indirect talks between the United States and Iran that lasted 16 months, during which the European Union shuttled between the two parties, where a senior official in the Union stated on August 8, 2022, that "the bloc submitted a final offer to this agreement."