State Department Spokesman: We need more progress in the Vienna talks

“This round of Vienna talks is continuing,” State Department spokesman Ned Price told a news conference on Tuesday. We are talking about the little progress we have seen in recent days.
“If we want to be in a position to save Burjam and ensure the benefits of non-proliferation, we need to make more or less progress,” he said.
The State Department spokesman also lamented Washington’s decision to withdraw from the UN Security Council, adding that it was “deeply regrettable” that the current administration had acted without these oversight and approval protocols due to the former US administration’s erroneous decision.
“We were promised a better deal in the previous administration, but that promise never materialized, and Iran was able to expand its nuclear program rapidly after the previous administration ousted it,” the State Department official said.
He added that we had been promised that maximum pressure would force Iran and the proxy forces to retreat. But quite the opposite has happened.
A State Department spokesman acknowledged that Washington, not Iran, was isolated as a result of its decision to withdraw from the Security Council.
Asked by a reporter whether Washington had set a time for North Korea, such as talks with Iran, he said the two challenges were quite different. One of these countries has a nuclear weapons program and the other does not have a military nuclear program, and our goal and commitment is that Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons.
“I will leave the approval to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and this is exactly the reason why we want a reciprocal return to full commitment to We are committed because this agreement has the strictest monitoring and approval program in any agreement, and having this agreement will be useful for us.
The remarks came as Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told Al Jazeera: “We do not yet see any new initiatives from the West in the Vienna talks, so they do not seem ready to return to their commitments quickly.” Therefore, we feel that Westerners are still procrastinating on this issue.
The eighth round of Vienna talks between Iran and the P4 + 1 group on December 26 to lift the US unilateral sanctions against Iran and Washington’s return to the UN Security Council has begun and has now reached a critical stage.
The talks have acknowledged that progress has been made by the negotiating teams. But it is heard that despite the progress made in the dialogues, some extravagant demands and sometimes even attempts to push back the text continue, and this has been one of the reasons for the slowness of the dialogues.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has stated that if an agreement is reached in Vienna, the party violating the 1994 agreements must first lift the sanctions, and after verification, Iran’s nuclear actions will be carried out within the framework of the Borjam agreement.
Iran emphasizes that the more seriously the other side is prepared to lift the sanctions and the more serious the will is to accept the mechanisms envisaged by the Islamic Republic of Iran in lifting the sanctions, especially on the two issues of verification and guarantee, the shorter we can reach an agreement. do.
The Comprehensive Joint Action Plan (CJAP), after 13 years of intensive international negotiations, was concluded on July 14, 2015. One week later, UN Security Council Resolution 2231 was ratified by the UN Security Council and annexed to Annex A of the resolution.
But after Donald Trump entered the White House in January 2017 (December 2016) and after a few preliminary steps, finally by taking positions contrary to Borjam, with the unilateral and illegal withdrawal of the United States from this agreement on May 8, 1397 (May 8, 2018), In two stages, its secondary sanctions against Iran were reinstated.
The unbalanced implementation of Borjam on the one hand and the pressures resulting from the application and intensification of unilateral US sanctions on the other hand, caused a year after the US withdrawal from Borjam, finally on May 8, 2019 (May 8, 2019) the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran Adopt nuclear commitments step by step to provide voluntary action by granting 60 days to diplomacy.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly stated that if the other parties remaining in the UN Security Council decide to implement their obligations in accordance with the agreement, steps to reduce Iran’s UN Security Council obligations will be reversible.
The Biden Democratic administration, which has been critical of former US President Donald Trump’s departure from the UN Security Council, has not yet taken serious action to return to its commitments.