The Iranian Foreign Ministry pointed to the United States (USA) as being responsible for the fact that there is still no final agreement in Vienna (Austria), which would lift the sanctions against the Persian nation and allow it to continue developing its nuclear program with peaceful purposes.
Said Jatibzade, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, urged the Americans to make a "political decision" before the return to the Austrian capital of their country's chief negotiators to reach a new pact.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry blamed the US for the fact that there is still no final agreement in Vienna (Austria), and urged it to lift the sanctions against the Persian nation and allow it to continue developing its nuclear program for peaceful purposes.
"The Vienna negotiations have lasted so long, because Washington, by setting deadlines and offering false narratives, thought that it could deprive the Iranian nation of its interests and rights," Khatibzade charged.
He urged the Americans to make a "political decision" before the return to the Austrian capital of their country's chief negotiators to reach a new pact.
Meeting in Russia
The country's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will visit Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the course of talks on the new nuclear deal and the situation in the war-affected Ukraine, Anadolu news agency reports.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh gave Russian President Vladimir Putin's government the benefit of the doubt, saying Russia had pledged not to obstruct the talks in Vienna, while praising Moscow's stance. and Beijing in the talks and called it "constructive."
The eighth round of talks was suspended last Friday, a fact that the head of foreign policy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, attributed to "external factors".
The suspension came at a time when the talks had entered their final stretch and the parties were ready to close the deal after almost 11 months of deliberations.
Khatibzadeh called Abdollahian's agenda "specific" and added that Russia's demand for written guarantees from the US should also be discussed in the joint commission of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), better known as the nuclear deal.
Iran said that if the US resolved the two remaining red lines regarding the negotiations, including economic guarantees, they would be in a position to convene a ministerial meeting in Vienna "as soon as possible."
"Hard Decisions"
U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a press conference on Monday that Washington is prepared to make "tough decisions" to save the Iran nuclear deal.
When asked about a possible removal of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the US list of foreign terrorist organizations, the official declined to detail which sanctions they are willing or unwilling to lift but asserted that they are "ready to make difficult decisions to return Iran's nuclear program to the limits" established in the 2015 agreement, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), RT reports.
"There has been significant progress in recent weeks, but I want to clarify that an agreement is neither imminent nor certain. And in fact, we are equally preparing for scenarios with and without a mutual return to full implementation [of the agreement]," he stated.
He recalled that US President Joe Biden pledged that, while he is in power, "Iran will not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon, and this commitment is as real and strong in a world where we have the JCPOA as in one where we don't."
