The position of the US special envoy for Iran regarding the JCPOA – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr News Agency, Robert Maley, the US special envoy for Iran affairs, in an interview with National Public Radio, described the recent negotiations in Doha as “a little more than a missed opportunity”.
He added: “Efforts to revive the JCPOA are in a dangerous situation.” During the multilateral negotiations in Vienna, the frameworks of the agreement were presented, but due to the lack of agreement between Iran and the United States on the time to lift the sanctions that are indirectly related to the nuclear agreement, the negotiations were stopped.
Robert Mali claimed in this regard: Iran is the negotiating party that did not give a positive answer. Tehran has added requests that I think anyone who looks at it will realize that it has nothing to do with the nuclear agreement; Requests that have been requested in the past and we, the Europeans and others have clearly stated that they are not included in the negotiations. The European Union wanted to try one more time or at least one more time and therefore invited the parties to Doha in the hope that the Iranians would show a willingness to give a positive answer, but at this point they showed that they were not capable of giving an answer. I can read these negotiations as little more than a missed opportunity.
In response to Iran’s foreign minister’s statement that the US position has not changed, he claimed: The European Union, as a coordinator, put a very comprehensive plan of what it thought would be a fair outcome on the table, and we said that we are ready for this agreement, but the party that It was Iran that didn’t give a positive answer. When Iran announced that they came with their previous positions, they didn’t clarify. We came up with positions that were compatible for returning to the JCPOA, and yes, the party that should answer is Iran, and if it was not ready to provide such an answer, it is not clear why it came to the negotiations.
Regarding America’s agreement with the proposal regarding the timetable for fulfilling Iran and America’s conditions regarding the lifting of sanctions and the return and adherence to the provisions of the JCPOA, Mali said: “The essence of the matter is correct.” It is not 100% finalized, but America has many ideas about the final agreement. When this proposal was put on the table, we said we are ready to sign the agreement accordingly. We are waiting to see if Iran is ready to cross the finish line or not.
The US special representative for Iranian affairs claimed that Iran had new demands in Doha that were not related to the nuclear agreement, and some of them had already been presented to us and the European Union, and we had announced that these issues were part of the negotiations. It is not nuclear. Iran has not yet decided whether it intends to return to the JCPOA or not, but sooner or later it will have to decide.
He added: Returning to the JCPOA is not only in line with the interests of non-proliferation, but also in the interest of Iran because sanctions will be lifted, but Iran must make a decision. There is still time to return to the JCPOA. I must remind you that completely unnecessary conditions have reached here; The conditions we inherited from the previous government and were carelessly decided upon; To withdraw from the agreement that was working. Our effort in the Biden government is to return to the agreement, if Iran wants, because we knew during the Trump administration that this method (withdrawing from the JCPOA) was a recipe for a very dangerous situation. We still have time to solve the problem and return to the agreement, and we hope that Iran will choose the same path. This is the path we will stick to.