Russian envoy slams Western reluctance to revive Iran deal
The permanent representative of Russia to international organizations in Vienna has criticized the Western parties to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal for their reluctance to finalize an agreement to revive the tattered accord.
“Does the lack of readiness on the part of Western negotiators to finalise the ViennaTalks mean that they are more or less satisfied with the current state of affairs around the nuclear programme of Iran despite all their complaints? If not, why they gave up with diplomacy?” Mikhail Ulyanov wrote in a tweet on Tuesday.
The comments came hours after the European Union delivered a statement “at the IAEA Board of Governors on the verification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231 (2015).”
“The EU will continue to invest diplomatically and politically to restore the implementation of the necessary restrictions to the Iranian nuclear programme in order to ensure that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon,” a part of the EU statement said.
The statement also claimed that the bloc “remains committed” to the Iran nuclear deal known as the JCPOA.
The EU states further expressed regret that Iran has not allegedly accepted the compromise text submitted by the Coordinator on 8 August 2022, claiming that the new developments have made it increasingly difficult to reach a diplomatic solution.
“The EU is deeply concerned by the successive IAEA reports documenting the alarming escalation of Iran’s nuclear program,” the statement further reads.
In another tweet, Ulyanov wrote, “In the IAEA BoG Western states expressed numerous complaints and concerns about the nuclear programme of Iran. It’s difficult to take them seriously because the US and E3 can help settle these problems fast if they return to the ViennaTalks to finalise the agreement on JCPOA.”