The Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagheri Ghalibaf has warned the Western countries that Tehran cannot stand their bullying towards implementing the JCPOA.
“If the West wants not to implement the JCPOA with bullying, we will not allow them to make excessive demands,” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagheri Ghalibaf wrote in a post on his Twitter account on Friday.
“We have shown that if they comply with the framework (JCPOA), we will act in kind,” the speaker noted.
He added, “We hope that the western side will give in to the demands of the Iranian nation in the negotiations.”
In the latest round of the Vienna talks in early August after a five-month hiatus, the EU put forward a “final text” of the draft decision on the revival of the Iran nuclear deal known as the JCPOA. Iran sent its own response to the EU and now is awaiting Washington’s response to its proposals to reach a final agreement.
According to a report, With Iran busy studying recent proposals submitted by the EU, the talks in Vienna entered a new phase that is expected to generate much kerfuffle springing from an apparent US decision to up the ante vis-a-vis Iran.
The latest Iranian statement regarding the EU proposals was made on Friday when a senior assistant to the Iranian president announced that Tehran was still reviewing European ideas.
Mohammad Jamshidi, who is the director of the Iranian president’s office for political affairs, insinuated that Iran is in a comfortable position with respect to the Vienna talks over reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, formally called the JCPOA, while the West is under pressure to get a deal with Iran.
“Of course, I cannot speak about the content or the authenticity of the recent text published by media about safeguards issues, but such coordinated leaks indicate which side is under pressure and need an urgent deal. The review is underway,” Jamshidi said on Twitter.
Despite the fact that Iran has yet to give an answer to the EU proposals, the US seems to be increasingly impatient to conclude the talks. The US’ patience wearing thin was evident at the start of the latest round of talks in Vienna in which the EU foreign policy chief submitted what he called a final text, a move that seemed to have been coordinated with the White House.
Before heading to Vienna, US special envoy for Iran Rob Malley said he was going to Vienna with his expectations “in check.”
“The United States welcomes EU efforts and is prepared for a good faith attempt to reach a deal. It will shortly be clear if Iran is prepared for the same,” he added on Twitter.
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Josep Borrell unveiled his “final text” soon after that tweet and insisted on a yes-or-no answer from Iran, something that Iran rejected by saying that Borrell’s final text was no more than “proposals”.
While Iran is still reviewing the EU proposals, the US seems to have reached out to Qatar and Oman to send messages to Iran. Qatar’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Regional Affairs Mohammad bin Abdul Aziz al-Khalifi arrived in Tehran on Saturday with a message from Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who has recently spoken with his American counterpart, Tony Blinken, about the status of the Vienna talks.
Neither Iran nor Qatar provided any details as to the content of the written message. But the Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, advised the US to abandon the “language of threat” in dealing with Iran after he met the Qatari deputy foreign minister.
“History ought to have taught the US that language of threat against Iran and Iranians achieves nothing. Futile attempts at deflection won’t allow the US to evade responsibility for the thousands of Iranian and other victims of its involvement in terrorist crimes in our region,” the Iranian foreign minister tweeted.
As things stand, the US could well resort again to pressure and bullying to get Iran to accept a deal that falls short of meeting Iran’s demands.
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