Iran Press/ Iran News: Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Javad Ali-Akbari said in the prayers' sermon on Friday that the European side was trying to distort the talks to create tensions inside Iran and disrupt the focus of the Iranian negotiating team, and it would fail.
Ali-Akbari said that the Iranian delegation stepped in the negotiations with strength and initiative and that the focus of the talks was on lifting all sanctions.
Yet, the top cleric has stressed the neutralization of the sanctions relying on domestic capabilities and negotiations.
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 had earlier 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 JCPOA.
The E3, together with the US, 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.
But now, it is said that the negotiating diplomats have agreed on a document including Iran's proposals and an agreement reached between Iran and the P4+1 six months ago.
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