Iran accuses US of delaying nuclear negotiations, Washington denies – 08/22/2022 at 10:05 pm

IRAN IS Plenty of TO Hold off NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS, WAS-HINGTON DENIES

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for Paris Hafez

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran on Monday accused the United States of dragging talks to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a assert Washington denied.

Tehran responded previous 7 days to the “last” text introduced by the European Union to relaunch the 2015 settlement right after 16 months of indirect talks in between the United States and Iran.

Josep Borrell, the EU’s significant consultant for international affairs, said on Monday he hoped the US would reply positively to the Brussels proposal this 7 days, expressing that Iran has offered a “affordable” response to the textual content.

Iranian International Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani claimed Tehran desired a lasting deal that would preserve Tehran’s genuine rights.

“The Americans are hesitating and there is inaction on the European facet … The united states and Europe have to have a offer a lot more than Iran,” he included.

The US Point out Section spokesman rejected remarks at a push conference: “The thought that we have by some means delayed this negotiation is just phony.”

Ned Value included that Washington was encouraged by Iran’s abandonment of some of its demands, this kind of as the removal of the Innovative Guards from the US terrorist organization blacklist.

“This is portion of why an settlement is nearer now than it was two weeks back. But the consequence of these ongoing conversations still stays uncertain as gaps continue being,” he stated.

The United States has repeatedly termed on Iran to release Iranian-American prisoners held by Tehran for security motives. Iran, for its part, has identified as for the launch of some of its citizens detained for factors associated to US sanctions.

“The prisoner trade with Washington is a separate make a difference and has almost nothing to do with the negotiation system to revive the 2015 agreement,” stated Nasser Kanaani, indicating that Tehran was completely ready to exchange prisoners.

(With Christina Thykjaer and Inti Landauro in Madrid and Simon Lewis, Humeyra Pamuk and Costas Pitas in Washington created by Parisa Hafezi and Arshad Mohammed, French edition Laetitia Volga)

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