Iran Press/ Europe: "The work will continue on the basis of the previous drafts," Mikhail Ulyanov tweeted.
"The Iranian proposals will be properly considered and either incorporated or rejected or modified. Normal practice," the diplomat noted.
Since Friday, December 10, negotiators from Iran and the P4+1 group of countries – China, Russia, France, Britain, plus Germany – have been holding expert sessions to discuss Iran's proposals the Europeans called unrealistic and maximalist.
In addition to expert sessions, talks and consultations continued at different levels on Saturday and Sunday.
The bleak Western outlook has been decried by observers in Iran and beyond as a negotiating tactic to get more concessions from Iran, ones that go beyond the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
The E3, together with the U.S., started using this tactic even before the seventh round began. According to an Al-Araby Al-Jadeed report, the Americans and the Europeans warned that they would withdraw from the talks if Iran insisted on a new agenda for the negotiations and backtracked on what was achieved during the past six rounds, which ended on June 20 amid presidential transition in Iran.
But what the Europeans warn of is nothing other than Iran's insistence on reviving the original JCPOA without any addition. On the other, the E3 is pushing for a revised version of the original JCPOA.
Despite European propaganda about Iran's alleged intransigence at the talks, it came to light that the E3 crusty diplomats have pushed for non-JCPOA issues to be included in the negotiations, something that Iran strongly rejected.
Some news sources in Vienna also report that the United States may contact Iran through unofficial channels to defuse pressure from JCPOA opponents.
For this reason, Ali Bagheri Kani, the senior Iranian negotiator, in an interview with Al-Mayadin on Sunday, December 12, reported on Israeli lobbying to influence the talks and the failure of the negotiations.
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