The Russian diplomat announced the right time to complete the Vienna talks

According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s representative to Vienna-based international organizations, said the best time to successfully complete the Vienna talks was early February.

Today (Friday), referring to the resumption of sanctions talks between Iran and the P5 + 1 in Vienna, Ulyanov Twitter page “Vienna talks on Burjam will resume in three days,” he wrote.

“In the previous round of talks, the negotiators relied on rapid progress,” he explained. “We must move towards the successful completion of the negotiations as soon as possible, preferably by early February.”

“The answer is yes,” the Russian diplomat said in response to a tweet from Lawrence Norman, an influential Wall Street Journal correspondent in Brussels, that Russia had joined the “late January-early February” timeline for the Vienna talks. “If this is just a timeline.”

“The answer is no, if this is a deadline,” Ulyanov said. Artificial strokes are harmful. Progress in negotiations depends on many factors and cannot be accurately calculated in advance. “At this point, the beginning of February seems like a realistic timeline.”

Earlier, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken reiterated that the time for a new agreement with Iran was dwindling, and said that Washington was considering alternatives.

A new round of talks on lifting sanctions ended in Vienna on Friday evening. At the end of this round of talks, Iran’s reforms and views were accepted in the two presented documents, and according to “Ali Bagheri”, the senior negotiator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, these two documents will be the basis for future negotiations.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has stated that the lifting of all sanctions against Iran, so that it can be verified, will be the most important agenda of the Iranian delegation in these talks.

However, US Special Representative for Iran Robert Mali expressed hope that the Vienna talks would continue as soon as possible, saying “we are prepared with a system in which both sides know who is going to do what and when.” Give. (More details)

Joe Biden’s administration has acknowledged the failure of the so-called “maximum pressure” policy used by the previous US administration against Iran since leaving the UN Security Council, but has refused to take any steps to reverse it. The Biden administration’s insistence on maintaining sanctions under Trump is one of the main points of contention in previous rounds of the Vienna talks aimed at bringing the United States back to the UN Security Council.

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