In the seventh round of talks in Vienna, Austria, the European powers (E3) stood against Iran's draft texts and demands for lifting sanctions, but Iranians' logical diplomacy has pushed them towards retreating from their stances, so the Western sides accepted to continue talks on a joint document that is in line with Tehran's stance in the eighth round of Vienna talks slated for December 27.
Unconstructive stances adopted by European states have been the root cause of the slow pace of negotiations. France has tried to get in the way of the Joint Commission meeting of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and push the Vienna talks to a standstill to play its role as a bad cop.
Since the French Government is pursuing arms deals with certain states in West Asia, it is not surprising that Paris tries to hinder the Vienna talks in order to sell more weapons.
As many analysts and statesmen say, one of the main achievements of any Vienna agreement would be enhancement of security in West Asia; a factor that can affect arms sales in the region. West Asia has been suffering from years of sowing discord by foreign powers.
France and Britain are the two important exporter of arms to the region, so they have enough motivation to obstruct the negotiations.
France, Britain, and Germany have separately and jointly claimed that they abide by their commitments under the JCPOA, but in fact they stood aside and did nothing tangible when the United States withdrew from the deal in May 2018 and re-imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
The Europeans have always been hand in gloves with the US in threatening Iran and proposing diplomatic negotiations at the same time. In these rounds of talks in Vienna, where the United States is absent in direct negotiations and the Zionist regime's threats are proven worthless and ineffective, the E3 especially Britain and France are playing the role of bad cop to put pressure on Iranians.
Ahead of presidential election in France, it is obvious that President Emmanuel Macron will avoid doing any move, which would make his allies angry. The Zionist regime has always opposed any nuclear agreement with Iran and Zionist lobbies in France have broaden influence in the European country, so the French Government plays bad cop role in order to appease the Zionists.
Britain, which has not shown good faith from the beginning of the seventh round of talks, hosted two meetings to hamper the Vienna talks.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has urged Iran to accept the current situation and return to the JCPOA, refusing to point to the role of the United States as the source of problems in implementing the international deal.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock claimed that it had shown in the last days that there has not been any progress... due to the offer of the Iranian Government negotiations have been thrown back six months.
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has called on the other parties of the Vienna talks to lift all nuclear-related sanctions in order to get rid of being worried about Iranians' progress in conducting peaceful nuclear program.
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