Iran Press/ Europe: The eighth round of talks between Iran and the P4+1 group began on December 27, 2021, in Vienna.
Ali Bagheri Kani, Iran's deputy foreign minister and top negotiator in Vienna sanctions removal talks and Enrique Mora, the EU coordinator had a meeting on Saturday.
Also, a bilateral meeting of the Iran-Russia negotiating delegations chaired by Bagheri Kani and Mikhail Ulyanov, the chairmen of the Iranian and Russian delegations, was held in the Austrian capital. Participants these days are busy drafting the text of the agreement and deciding on some remaining issues.
Meanwhile, experts from the Iran and P4+1 group met on (Friday) in all three working groups of nuclear issues, the lifting of sanctions and executive arrangements to address the remaining issues in the Vienna talks.
Talks have reached a point where the United States, as a party to the 2015 agreement, must take concrete and meaningful steps to compensate for the former administration's illegal actions, especially in the area of lifting sanctions.
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has so far failed to guarantee Iran's economic interests, and the US approach and the inability of some European parties to have the independence to act outside the US shadow have added to Iran's distrust of some of the other parties in the Vienna talks.
In such circumstances, Iran will agree to an agreement that realistically and sustainably serves Iran's economic interests, not just on paper.
JCPOA was signed and implemented in 2015 with the aim of securing Iran's economic interests in exchange for some of Tehran's nuclear restrictions, but at the end, not only were these interests not continuously guaranteed but with the withdrawal of the United States from the accord, new sanctions against Iran were imposed.
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