Iran urges ‘realistic’ U.S. response to revive nuclear deal

Reuters-Aug6th2022

DUBAI, Aug 6 (Reuters) – Iran’s foreign minister called on Saturday for a “realistic response” from the United States to Iranian proposals at indirect talks in Vienna aimed at reviving Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, state media reported.

The comments came as talks continued for a third day on Saturday with few expecting a breakthrough compromise while Tehran’s disputed uranium enrichment programme surges forward.

“Hossein Amirabdollahian… stressed the need for a realistic U.S. response to Iran’s constructive proposals on various issues to make the deal work,” state media reported, without providing details on the proposals.

Little remains of the 2015 pact between Iran and the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, which lifted sanctions against Tehran in exchange for curbs on Iranian enrichment activity the West fears could yield atomic bombs.

In 2018, then-U.S. President Donald Trump ditched the deal and reimposed harsh sanctions. In response, Tehran – which says its nuclear programme is for power generation and other peaceful purposes – breached the agreement in several ways including rebuilding stocks of enriched uranium.

Iranian media suggested a sticking point in the talks to revive the pact may be over Iran’s refusal to address alleged unexplained uranium traces as demanded by the U.N. nuclear watchdog (IAEA), with Tehran insisting that the nuclear deal had cleared its nuclear programme of alleged possible military dimensions

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