“If they decide not to come back to the deal, we will consider other means, diplomatic and otherwise.”
The United States will not remain “with folded arms” if Iran does not negotiate in good faith to save the agreement on its nuclear program and continue to develop it, warned the American envoy Rob Malley before the resumption of the talks scheduled for Monday in Vienna.
“If they decide not to go back to the deal, obviously we’re going to have to consider other means – diplomatic and otherwise – to try to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions,” he said in a statement. interview which will be broadcast on Friday by the American public radio NPR, excerpts of which were published on Wednesday.
“The options available to America are, you know, known to all,” he added, again letting the threat of military action hover.
The United States left in 2018, under the presidency of Donald Trump, the agreement concluded three years earlier by Iran with the great powers to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. They reinstated and tightened their sanctions and the Islamic Republic began, in response, to increasingly free itself from restrictions on its atomic program.
Current US President Joe Biden says he wants to return to the 2015 agreement if Iran also returns to its commitments. Indirect negotiations started in April in Vienna but have been at a standstill since the election in June of a new ultra-conservative Iranian president.
They are due to resume Monday in the Austrian capital.
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