Iran Warns West Against Excessive Demands

Date: 19 August 2022 - 21:41

News ID: ۱۰۵۹۲۵

TEHRAN -- Iranian parliament speaker Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf on Friday urged the Western countries to stick to their commitments under the 2015 nuclear agreement, warning them of any attempt to violate the deal through “bullying policies”.
“Iran will not let any excessive demands regarding the JCPOA revival. It advises the Western side to refrain from violating the deal through bullying,” Qalibaf wrote in a Twitter post in Persian.
“We have proven that if they comply with the agreement, we will also do the same,” added the speaker.
“We hope that the Western side would yield to the legitimate demands of the Iranian people in the negotiations.”
On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said no party can definitely talk about conclusion of a good and lasting agreement on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal in the Austrian capital of Vienna unless all issues have been worked out.
Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a telephone conversation with his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi.
“After receiving U.S. comments and opinions, we will enter a new stage in Vienna talks if Iran’s economic benefits from the agreement are secured and our red lines are observed,” he said.
“We cannot talk with certainty about reaching a good and lasting agreement unless everything is agreed upon.”
On Monday, Iran said it had provided the European Union’s coordinator in the JCPOA talks with its final conclusion related to the bloc’s proposals for revival of the deal, emphasizing that it was the U.S.’s turn to show realism and flexibility if it really wanted a final agreement to be reached.
The EU confirmed that it had received Iran’s response, saying the bloc was studying the reply with the parties to the deal and the United States.
On Wednesday, State Department

spokesperson Ned Price confirmed that the U.S. had received Iran’s comments via the EU.
Price said President Joe Biden’s administration was still studying the notes and remained “engaged in consultations with the EU as well as with our European allies on the way ahead.”
The United States, under former president Donald Trump, left the JCPOA in 2018 and returned the sanctions that the agreement had lifted.
Iran and the remaining parties to the deal resumed on-and-off talks on a potential revitalization of the deal in the Austrian capital of Vienna since last year, months after Joe Biden succeeded Trump, to examine the potential of the deal’s revival and removal of the sanctions.