Iran warns nuclear talks will fail unless US provides guarantees

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary-General Ali Shamkhani said yesterday that negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers will fail unless US President Joe Biden provides guarantees that Washington will not withdraw from the deal “again”.

“The US President, lacking authority, is not ready to give guarantees. If the current status quo continues, the result of negotiations is clear,” Shamkhani said on Twitter.

هیچ نشانه‌ای از تَنَبُه متجاوز نبود/ رییس‌جمهور فاقد اختیار #آمریکا، حاضر به ارائه تضمین نیست
در صورت عدم تغییر شرایط فعلی، نتیجه #مذاکره از قبل روشن است.
تفاوت امروز با ایام جنگ: به برکت انقلاب، قدرت و توان مقاومت همه‌جانبه #ایران، بومی، مستمر و مبتنی بر ظرفیت‌های داخلی است.

— علی شمخانی (@alishamkhani_ir) November 3, 2021

Yesterday, the EU’s diplomatic service announced that negotiations on getting the Iran nuclear deal back on track will resume on 29 November, in Vienna.

Last April, Iran and six powers started talks to revive the deal, however, the talks were put on hold after Iran’s presidential election in June that brought President Ebrahim Raisi to power.

The Iran nuclear deal was signed in 2015 by Iran, the US, China, Russia, France, the UK, Germany and the EU.

Under the agreement, Tehran has committed to limit its nuclear activity to civilian purposes and, in return, world powers agreed to drop their economic sanctions against Iran.

However, the US, under President Donald Trump, unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions on Iran, prompting Tehran to stop complying with the nuclear deal.

READ: EU says Iran nuclear deal talks will resume in Vienna on 29 November